{"id":1596,"date":"2016-08-02T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tungsten2.gps.caltech.edu\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:34:21","slug":"07312016-m4-0-event-near-westmorland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/02\/07312016-m4-0-event-near-westmorland\/","title":{"rendered":"07\/31\/2016, M4.0 near Westmorland"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>31 Jul 2016 09:21:05 PDT, (32.958, -115.760), depth 3.2km, 16km SW of Westmorland, California<\/li>\n<li>Aftershocks: so far there have been no aftershocks recorded. Some may be expected in the next few days, the largest expected is approximately 1 magnitude unit smaller than the mainshock. There is a small chance (about 5%) that a larger quake could occur, with the likelihood decreasing over time.<\/li>\n<li>There were 2 events during the 3 days prior to the earthquake (within a 1 km radius), the largest was M2.6 (2016\/07\/31).<\/li>\n<li>Historical seismicity: since our records began in 1932 we&#8217;ve had 15 events of M4 or greater within 10km of today&#8217;s event, the largest was M6.6 (1942\/10\/21) and the most recent was M4.7 on 28 Jan 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Nearby faults: Superstition Hills flt, 1.3 km; Superstition Mountain section fault, 3.7 km; Lone Tree fault, 8.3 km; Wienert fault, 9.9 km; East Elmore Ranch fault, 10.7 km; and Elmore Ranch fault, 10.8 km; all within the Superstition Hills section of the San Jacinto fault zone.\n<li>Links for: <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci37644544#executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USGS earthquake page<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci37644544\/shakemap\/intensity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ShakeMap<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci37644544\/dyfi\/intensity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DYFI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Visit our <a href=\"\/index.php\/earthquakes\/speqrep\/index.html\">special reports page<\/a> for further information on local notable earthquakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Jul 2016 09:21:05 PDT, (32.958, -115.760), depth 3.2km, 16km SW of Westmorland, California Aftershocks: so far there have been no aftershocks recorded. Some may be expected in the next few days, the largest expected is approximately 1 magnitude unit<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/02\/07312016-m4-0-event-near-westmorland\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15],"tags":[121,120,12,122],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zack","category-local_earthquake","tag-121","tag-120","tag-m4-0","tag-westmorland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}