{"id":1505,"date":"2005-08-29T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/29\/and-youre-worried-about-earthquakes\/"},"modified":"2005-08-29T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T15:02:00","slug":"and-youre-worried-about-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/29\/and-youre-worried-about-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"And you&#8217;re worried about earthquakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, I&#8217;ll tell someone from out of state that I live in California, and they&#8217;ll ask me if I&#8217;m concerned about the &#8220;Big One&#8221; that seismologists predict will hit sometime in the next few decades.  I&#8217;m not.  Because while it&#8217;s pretty rare that a Category 5 like <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap050829.html\">Katrina<\/a> hits the United States&#8211; the last was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/1992andrew.html\">Andrew<\/a>, in 1992&#8211; there are parts of the country which have &#8220;hurricane season&#8221;.  Every.  Damn.  Year.<\/p>\n<p>Given the choice between a regularly scheduled pummeling and the California lottery, I&#8217;ll take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calottery.com\/Games\/SuperLottoPlus\/HowtoPlay\/\">QuickPick<\/a> any day of the week (and twice on Wednesdays and Saturdays).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, I&#8217;ll tell someone from out of state that I live in California, and they&#8217;ll ask me if I&#8217;m concerned about the &#8220;Big One&#8221; that seismologists predict will hit sometime in the next few decades. I&#8217;m not. Because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}