{"669718":{"#nid":"669718","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Southern California Earthquake Was Unlikely Triggered by Hurricane Hilary","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESouthern California is no stranger to earthquakes, but tropical storms like Hilary are rare. It\u2019s even rarer for a magnitude-5.1 earthquake near Ojai, Calif. to strike on the same Sunday afternoon (Aug. 20, 2023) that a tropical storm swept through Southern California. This uncommon confluence of events has sparked a heightened curiosity in the general public, including popular memes and the portmanteau \u201churriquake.\u201d But is there a physical connection between these events beyond mere coincidence in space and time? \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, was part of a research team that studied available meteorological and seismic data to reveal that the quake near Ojai, Calif. was almost certainly not triggered by Hilary, which had been downgraded to a tropical storm at the time the earthquake struck.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESouthern California is no stranger to earthquakes, but tropical storms like Hilary are rare. It\u2019s even rarer for a magnitude-5.1 earthquake near Ojai, Calif. to strike on the same Sunday afternoon (Aug. 20, 2023) that a tropical storm swept through Southern California. This uncommon confluence of events has sparked a heightened curiosity in the general public, including popular memes and the portmanteau \u201churriquake.\u201d But is there a physical connection between these events beyond mere coincidence in space and time? \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, was part of a research team that studied available meteorological and seismic data to reveal that the quake near Ojai, Calif. was almost certainly not triggered by Hilary, which had been downgraded to a tropical storm at the time the earthquake struck.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-09-18 14:24:37","changed_gmt":"2023-09-18 14:24:37","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Temblor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/temblor.net\/temblor\/earthquake-unlikely-triggered-by-hurricane-hilary-15536\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"12122","name":"Zhigang Peng"},{"id":"12120","name":"earthquakes"},{"id":"82","name":"hurricanes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}