{"id":10170,"date":"2016-10-29T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=10170"},"modified":"2016-11-09T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T23:29:22","slug":"study-shows-earthquake-risk-overstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/study-shows-earthquake-risk-overstated\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Earthquake Risk Overstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/study-shows-earthquake-risk-overstated\/earthquake-study\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/earthquake-study.jpg?fit=635%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"635,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"earthquake-study\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/earthquake-study.jpg?fit=635%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/earthquake-study.jpg?resize=300%2C189\" alt=\"earthquake-study\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/earthquake-study.jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/earthquake-study.jpg?w=635&amp;ssl=1 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA new study from the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky says U.S. Geological Survey maps overstate the earthquake hazard for the central United States.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Geological Survey spokesman Mike Lynch says there aren&#8217;t a lot of earthquakes of any significant size in the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States. He says researchers have to &#8220;default&#8221; to calculations based on results and conditions in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The study says the overstated hazard for the central U.S. leads to reduced economic development and higher insurance costs.<\/p>\n<p>It says the New Madrid Seismic Zone earthquake hazard should be revised on national seismic hazard maps.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky says U.S. Geological Survey maps overstate the earthquake hazard for the central United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-2E2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 13:11:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}