{"id":345645,"date":"2018-01-27T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/massive-7-9-quake-off-alaska-this-week\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:10:32","slug":"massive-7-9-quake-off-alaska-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/massive-7-9-quake-off-alaska-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive 7.9 Quake Off Alaska This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The magnitude 7.9 earthquake off the coast of Alaska earlier this week initially sparked fears that a massive tsunami was set to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While the alert was quickly dropped, startling new data shows just how powerful the seismic blast truly was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The US Geological Survey has revealed that two of its wells in\u00a0<a id=\"mol-5f206d10-022b-11e8-b0db-e3ac2bfa6193\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/florida\/index.html\">Florida<\/a>\u00a0detected changes caused by the earthquake, despite being roughly 3,800 miles from the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2018\/01\/25\/23\/48949D2200000578-5314423-The_M7_9_earthquake_off_Alaska_earlier_this_week_sparked_fears_t-a-84_1516924648540.jpg\" alt=\"The M7.9 earthquake off Alaska earlier this week sparked fears that a massive tsunami was set to follow. While the alert was quickly dropped, startling new data shows just how powerful the seismic blast truly was. Above, dramatic changes to well-water in Florida can be seen\" width=\"601\" height=\"378\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The M7.9 earthquake off Alaska earlier this week sparked fears that a massive tsunami was set to follow. While the alert was quickly dropped, startling new data shows just how powerful the seismic blast truly was. Above, dramatic changes to well-water in Florida can be seen<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In wells near Ft. Lauderdale and at Blue Springs, near Madison, the USGS found that water levels changed dramatically after the quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At Blue Springs, levels jumped from about 41.59 feet to 41.77.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And, the opposite happened in Ft. Lauderdale \u2013 there, the experts noted a drop from around 1.42 feet to just over 1.3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Alaska\u2019s magnitude 7.9 earthquake rattled Earth\u2019s plumbing 3,800 miles away in Florida, where water levels in 2 wells spiked within minutes,\u2019 USGS tweeted after the quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It might seem extreme, but according to the experts, this type of activity is common following powerful earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5314423\/Quake-Alaska-caused-water-levels-change-FLORIDA.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Read the Whole Article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/no_author\/massive-magnitude-7-9-quake-off-alaska-this-week-caused-water-levels-to-change-in-wells-3800-miles-away-in-florida-experts-reveal\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnitude 7.9 earthquake off the coast of Alaska earlier this week initially sparked fears that a massive tsunami was set to follow. While the alert was quickly dropped, startling new data shows just how powerful the seismic blast truly was. The US Geological Survey has revealed that two of its wells in\u00a0Florida\u00a0detected changes caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}