{"id":2501,"date":"2019-08-05T05:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2019-08-05T05:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:14:09","slug":"earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"EARTHQUAKE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGSE-in-hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGSE-in-hand-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Da book\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGSE-in-hand-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGSE-in-hand.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The day foretold has finally arrived. The Great Seattle Earthquake has come&#8211;to my doorstep, delivered by overnight express. And it&#8217;s a fine and handsome book, the culmination of three years of painstaking research into subjects as diverse as geophysics, government disaster preparedness, and even local Native American legends.<\/p>\n<p>The story line of this thriller follows the fates of a small collection of characters whose experiences are portrayed in great detail, while society as a whole is shaken out of its earthquake complacency by devastating events on a grand scale.<\/p>\n<p>To the best of my ability as an author, I have striven to both entertain&#8211;scare, that is&#8211;and educate. Did you know a huge earthquake fault runs directly under the City of Seattle? Did you know it snapped around 1100 years ago, raising portions of the sea bottom and sinking a village of the Duwamish Tribe under tsunami sand? Do you know what Mariners stadium evacuation plans call for in case of a quake? Well, I do, and I wrote tons of factual information in and between scenes describing the characters&#8217; desperate struggles to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Curious? Follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/LandingPageEarthquake.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a> to a page that lists every available version, from Kindle to Nook to iBook to paperback.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure you won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Seattle Earthquake has come&#8211;to my doorstep, delivered by overnight express. And it&#8217;s a fine and handsome book. <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/earthquake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,381],"tags":[72,434,226,88,51,433],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-northwest-tales","tag-duwamish-tribe","tag-helicopter-rescue","tag-medical-thriller","tag-native-american","tag-novel","tag-seattle-earthquake-fault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}