{"id":7613,"date":"2023-02-09T19:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2023-02-09T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:00:15","slug":"la-terra-trema-chi-e-stato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/la-terra-trema-chi-e-stato\/","title":{"rendered":"The earth shakes &#8211; whose fault is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/86\/Turkey_earthquake_2023_montage.png\/800px-Turkey_earthquake_2023_montage.png\" width=\"262\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And again a major earthquake fills the pages of the newspapers because of the many thousands deaths. Again no geologist, geophysicist or seismologist is surprised that there was such a strong earthquake in that area. Insiders are well aware of the most dangerous seismic areas in the world. The Anatolian Peninsula, mostly occupied by Turkey, is one of them, on a par with California and Mexico, Japan, Chile and Peru, to give a few examples of states on plate margins. By now we know well the different plates into which the Earth&#8217;s lithosphere is divided and where they interact releasing large amounts of energy. So why so many deaths?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geologica.substack.com\/p\/the-earth-shakes-whose-fault-is-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading on Substack&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}