{"id":337,"date":"2016-10-26T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-05-10T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T09:43:55","slug":"historical-bhutan-earthquake-in-1714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/2016\/10\/historical-bhutan-earthquake-in-1714\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Bhutan earthquake in 1714"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>With the help of several historical documents as well as two geological sites studied with paleoseismological methods, we could constrain a hitherto unclear earthquake in the Himalaya. The results reveal that the 1714 earthquake occurred in Bhutan, and that it was a major event with a magnitude of 7.5-8.5. For details see our paper published in <em>Geophysical Research Letters\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2016GL071033\/abstract\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outreach: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.agu.org\/press-release\/entire-himalayan-arc-can-produce-large-earthquakes\/\">AGU<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/11\/tiny-himalayan-country-may-not-be-immune-earthquakes-thought\">Science<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/getactu\/wwwgse\/1477918072553\/\">FGSE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuenselonline.com\/researchers-fill-gap-about-bhutans-seismic-history\/\">Kuensel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/planeterde.de\/wissen\/truegerische-ruhe-in-bhutan\/\">Planeterde<\/a>, followed by other portals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of several historical documents as well as two geological sites studied with paleoseismological methods, we could constrain a hitherto unclear earthquake in the Himalaya. The results reveal that the 1714 earthquake occurred in Bhutan, and that it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/orog3ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}