{"id":9588,"date":"2012-04-07T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:30:36","slug":"why-japan-has-so-many-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/why-japan-has-so-many-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Japan has so Many Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/why-japan-earthquakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9645\" title=\"why-japan-earthquakes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/why-japan-earthquakes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/why-japan-earthquakes.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/why-japan-earthquakes-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan is located along the Pacific &#8220;ring of fire&#8221;, on the edges of several continental and oceanic tectonic plates. This is an area of high seismic and volcanic activity from New Zealand, up through Japan, across to Alaska, and down the west coasts of North and South America. Japan\u2019s specific location in this &#8220;ring&#8221;, causes frequent earthquakes as well as many volcanoes and hot springs across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Earth Quake Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/japanese-earthquake-on-march-11th-2011-moved-the-earth-on-its-axis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Quake Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is located along the Pacific &#8220;ring of fire&#8221;, on the edges of several continental and oceanic tectonic plates. This is an area of high seismic and volcanic activity from New Zealand, up through Japan, across to Alaska, and down the west coasts of North and South America. Japan\u2019s specific location in this &#8220;ring&#8221;, causes frequent earthquakes as well as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[267,1627,2351,1112],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-facts","tag-geology-facts","tag-japan-earthquake-facts","tag-quick-facts-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}