{"id":32582,"date":"2011-03-13T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/propagating-waves-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:13","slug":"propagating-waves-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/propagating-waves-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Propagating Waves | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/12japan.html?_r=1\">devastating earthquake<\/a>, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hit Japan today, causing extensive damage and a large tsunami. I can&rsquo;t imagine what it would be like to look out your window and see something like this headed your way. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the disaster.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/12japan.html?_r=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f29a_12japan-cnd-span4-articleLarge.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6367\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>A force this big propagates around the world, so beaches <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/03\/southern-california-beaches-closed-as-waves-expected-from-japan-earthquake.html\">here in Southern California<\/a> were expecting heightened wave activity &mdash; nothing very serious, but certainly noticeable. Scientists of course immediately leapt into action to estimate what kind of effects should be expected. The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ptwc.weather.gov\/?region=0\">National Weather Service<\/a> circulated this map of predicted wave heights. Click to embiggen.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/03\/energylhvpd9-05.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f29a_tsunami2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6371\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Naturally, the House of Representatives is trying to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/11\/gop-budget-tsunami\/\">cut funding<\/a> for tsunami warning centers.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FXd8B7RUnSHcJo0roQBwTG32uko\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f29a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FXd8B7RUnSHcJo0roQBwTG32uko\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f29a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f29a_dXbNH2mJ4mo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f29a_lKX2aeIbrfs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hit Japan today, causing extensive damage and a large tsunami. I can&rsquo;t imagine what it would be like to look out your window and see something like this headed your way. Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/propagating-waves-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}