{"id":301,"date":"2011-03-08T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-03-08T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:12:56","slug":"understanding-the-many-moderate-oregon-usa-seaquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/2011\/03\/08\/understanding-the-many-moderate-oregon-usa-seaquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the many moderate Oregon (USA) seaquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last update: March 8, 2011 at 9:20 am by By <a title=\"Posts by Armand Vervaeck\" href=\"http:\/\/earthquake-report.com\/author\/armand-vervaeck\/\">Armand Vervaeck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read the full\u00a0article click <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake-report.com\/2011\/03\/08\/understanding-the-many-moderate-oregon-usa-seaquakes\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13765\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/?attachment_id=13765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"oregon-blanco-fault-zone\" src=\"http:\/\/earthquake-report.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oregon-blanco-fault-zone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>Since a few months the<strong> transform fault zone<\/strong> about 350 km out of the Coos Bay Oregon coast is discharging energy by means of earthquakes of magnitude 5.x The <strong>Blanco Transform Fault <\/strong>as it is called, has become the most intensely studied <strong>ocean transform fault <\/strong>in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oregon State University scientists <\/strong>have completed a analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is <strong>more active than the San Andreas Fault in California<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Blanco Transform Fault Zone likely won\u2019t produce the huge earthquake <\/strong>many have predicted for the Pacific Northwest because it isn\u2019t a subduction zone fault. But the scientists say <strong>an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 to 7.0 is possible<\/strong>, if not probable in the near future, and their analysis suggests that the region may be under some <strong>tectonic stress that potentially could affect the Cascadia Subduction Zone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU research is contributing to understanding the Blanco Transform Fault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2977,2844,2980,2976,2882,2860,2902,2774,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-01","category-district-1-house-2","category-district-05","category-district-09","category-district-10-house","category-district-16","category-district-32","category-house","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}