{"id":60446,"date":"2026-06-08T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-philippines-earthquake-is-the-largest-this-year-but-it-couldve-been-bigger-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:24:00","slug":"the-philippines-earthquake-is-the-largest-this-year-but-it-couldve-been-bigger-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/06\/08\/the-philippines-earthquake-is-the-largest-this-year-but-it-couldve-been-bigger-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines earthquake is the largest this year, but it could\u2019ve been bigger\u2014here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit the Philippines happened at a subduction zone. Such places are capable of producing the largest earthquakes possible<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit the Philippines happened at a subduction zone. Such places are capable of producing the largest earthquakes possible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60447,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60446\/revisions\/60447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}