{"id":50,"date":"2010-04-11T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/11\/powerful-mother-nature\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:57:38","slug":"powerful-mother-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/11\/powerful-mother-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful &#8220;Mother Nature&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post describes<a href=\"http:\/\/webecoist.com\/2008\/10\/01\/most-devastating-deadly-natural-land-disasters\/\"> 8 of the Most Devastating Deadly Land Disasters<\/a>. Throughout this WebEcoist site, the reader can really grasp the true power of &#8220;Mother Nature&#8221;.\u00a0  In the past, catastrophic events have been preceded by <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gUf8tiSifgg\/SDEt9FgcuyI\/AAAAAAAAC0M\/7PNd7DxedW4\/s1600-h\/SichuanEarthquake_Mianzhou_Toads.jpg\">natural precursors<\/a> and since the new year has began, a series of powerful of earthquakes has been documented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeB-e3yBIho&amp;feature=related\">eyewitnesses<\/a>. The site also erases any anthropocentric mindset a reader might have by creating a sense of scale of the world we live in.<\/p>\n<p>The 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2010\/04\/alaskan-earathquake.gif\" alt=\"Good Friday Earthquake\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><font><font face=\"Arial\">The Alaskan earthquake generated a tsunami which destroyed this<br \/>\nwaterfront in Kodiak.<\/font><\/font><\/h5>\n<p>Sinkhole in Guatemala<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2010\/04\/sinkhole.jpg\" alt=\"sinkhole.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo is of a sinkhole that occurred early this year in Guatemala . The hole swallowed a dozen homes and killed at least 3 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post describes 8 of the Most Devastating Deadly Land Disasters. Throughout this WebEcoist site, the reader can really grasp the true power of &#8220;Mother Nature&#8221;.\u00a0 In the past, catastrophic events have been preceded by natural precursors and since the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/11\/powerful-mother-nature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1045,44770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydrosphere","category-lithosphere","category-spring-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}