{"id":3350,"date":"2011-01-19T19:19:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2011-01-19T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:22:26","slug":"californias-big-one-may-not-be-an-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/californias-big-one-may-not-be-an-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"California’s ‘big one’ may not be an earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 'super storm' like one that struck California 150 years ago would flood an area hundreds of miles long. (USGS \/ Google Earth)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

California and earthquakes go together like coffee and a cup but a new study suggests that an entirely different kind of disaster may have a bigger impact.\u00a0 The U.S. Geological Survey gathered 117 scientists to evaluate a hypothetical – but possible – “super storm” and its impact on the Golden State.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the end of 1861 and into the beginning of 1862 a very wet Pacific storm inundated California with rain.\u00a0 This storm turned much of the Sacramento Valley into an inland sea and flooded an area hundreds of miles long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, California is the United State’s most populous state and it has\u00a0the equivalent of the eighth largest economy in the world.\u00a0 The study shows that if a similar storm were to occur today the result would be disastrous.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The implications of this disaster scenario are tremendous and stretch far beyond California’s borders.\u00a0 Further, one has to wonder ‘what if’ Thornton and the Denver area were presented with a similar scenario?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more about the study at the Natural Disasters Examiner.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California and earthquakes go together like coffee and a cup but a new study suggests that an entirely different kind of disaster may have a bigger impact.\u00a0 The U.S. Geological Survey gathered 117 scientists to evaluate a hypothetical – but possible – “super storm” and its impact on the Golden State.\u00a0 At the end of … Continue reading California’s ‘big one’ may not be an earthquake<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[286,224,46,295,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}