{"id":100,"date":"2008-05-02T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:34:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T01:34:52","slug":"email-gives-false-earthquake-safety-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/email-gives-false-earthquake-safety-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Email gives false earthquake safety information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest earthquake activity in the Reno area, people have been receiving email messages about earthquake safety. One of them which describes a &#8220;triangle of life&#8221; safety zone is giving information that is not advisable in the United States where our structures are built with earthquakes in mind.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the bogus email is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/inboxer\/household\/triangle.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Snopes.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolotv.com\/home\/headlines\/18435974.html\" target=\"_blank\">KOLO-TV website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For real earthquake information<\/strong>, a good place to start is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismo.unr.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada Seismological Laboratory website<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested in viewing the latest quake map and detailed list of quakes in the Reno area &#8211; you can type <a href=\"http:\/\/CTreno.com\/eq\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>CTreno.com\/eq<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in your internet browser&#8217;s address bar, which re-directs to the official USGS webpage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 You can take an interactive quiz that provides real earthquake information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwcn.com\/sharedcontent\/features\/flash\/quake\/during.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The 40-page &#8220;Living with earthquakes in Nevada &#8211; A Nevadan&#8217;s guide to preparing for, surviving, and recovering from an earthquake&#8221; is a PDF file which can be downloaded, saved or printed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismo.unr.edu\/ep\/nvguide\/nvguide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/email-gives-false-earthquake-safety-information\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/email-gives-false-earthquake-safety-information\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest earthquake activity in the Reno area, people have been receiving email messages about earthquake safety. One of them which describes a &#8220;triangle of life&#8221; safety zone is giving information that is not advisable in the United States where our structures are built with earthquakes in mind. A description of the bogus email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}