{"id":12540,"date":"2013-01-17T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:02:14","slug":"earthquakes-are-on-the-rise-in-oklahoma-and-researchers-are-asking-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/17\/earthquakes-are-on-the-rise-in-oklahoma-and-researchers-are-asking-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes Are on the Rise in Oklahoma, and Researchers Are Asking Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12544\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Horses nuzzle near a seismometer deployed in a pasture near an earthquake epicenter in Sparks, Okla. A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook near here in November 2011, the state's largest earthquake in a century. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/horses-seismograph.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12544\" title=\"Horses and a Seismograph\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/horses-seismograph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/horses-seismograph.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/horses-seismograph-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/horses-seismograph-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/horses-seismograph-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horses nuzzle near a seismometer deployed in a pasture near an earthquake epicenter in Sparks, Okla. A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook near here in November 2011, the state&#39;s largest earthquake in a century.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>More than 1,000 earthquakes were recorded in Oklahoma in 2010. The next year, there were more than 1,400 earthquakes, making 2011 the state&#8217;s most seismically active year on record.<\/p><p>A 5.6-magnitude quake was recorded that year \u2014 Oklahoma&#8217;s largest in at least a century \u2014 and researchers, regulators and the public are starting to ask questions about the state\u2019s seismic risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthquakes are on the rise in Oklahoma, and researchers, regulators and the public are starting to ask questions about the state\u2019s seismic risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,491],"tags":[489,500,238],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12788,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions\/12788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}