{"id":1098,"date":"2010-01-19T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:50:53","slug":"earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(I know long time no post. I travel a lot more now, so I will be posting somewhat less often &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Grand Cayman this morning. I only flew in this PM, so did not experience it.\u00a0\u00a0 However, people seems to have been quite shaken up.\u00a0\u00a0 With the terrible events in Haiti just recently, its not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>From what I have been told and read, this in the only significant damage. Its a 20ft sinkhole n South Sound.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1099\" title=\"jan_19_sink-hole-quake480\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jan_19_sink-hole-quake480.jpg\" alt=\"jan_19_sink-hole-quake480\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jan_19_sink-hole-quake480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jan_19_sink-hole-quake480-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks bad, but damage could have been worse.<\/p>\n<p>A few facts &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Cayman trench is the second deepest place on earth, second to Challenge deep which is somewhere off Thailand.\u00a0 There is a major fault line that run south of the island.\u00a0 So its not really surprising that we are seeing seismic activity here. Lets just hope that that was the end of it for a while.\u00a0 Also, I know that there is a very strict building code here. When you build a house or commercial building, there are inspectors during the whole process and the place needs to be good for hurricanes &amp; quakes. I am sure that was a factor today and why there was not more damage.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all is normal!\u00a0 Diving this week-end \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I know long time no post. I travel a lot more now, so I will be posting somewhat less often &#8230;) A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Grand Cayman this morning. I only flew in this PM, so did not experience it.\u00a0\u00a0 However, people seems to have been quite shaken up.\u00a0\u00a0 With the terrible events in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}