{"id":146902,"date":"2022-09-23T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/mexico-earthquake-triggers-desert-tsunami-1500-miles-away-in-death-valley-cave"},"modified":"2022-09-23T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T02:23:22","slug":"mexico-earthquake-triggers-desert-tsunami-1500-miles-away-in-death-valley-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/mexico-earthquake-triggers-desert-tsunami-1500-miles-away-in-death-valley-cave","title":{"rendered":"Mexico earthquake triggers \u2018desert tsunami\u2019 1,500 miles away in Death Valley cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mexico-earthquake-triggers-desert-tsunami-1500-miles-away-in-death-valley-cave2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About five minutes after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico\u2019s southwest coast Monday, typically calm water deep in a Death Valley National Park cave started sloshing against the surrounding limestone rock.<\/p>\n<p>The reverberations from the earthquake more than 1,500 miles away created what experts have called a \u201cdesert tsunami,\u201d which on Monday made <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">waves<\/a> erupt up to 4 feet high in the cave known as Devils Hole, a pool of water about 10 feet wide, 70 feet long and more than 500 feet deep, in Amargosa Valley, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>The water in the partially filled cave has become an \u201cunusual indicator of seismic activity\u201d across the world, with earthquakes across the globe\u2014as far as Japan, Indonesia and Chile\u2014causing the water to splash up Devils Hole, according to the National Park Service website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About five minutes after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico\u2019s southwest coast Monday, typically calm water deep in a Death Valley National Park cave started sloshing against the surrounding limestone rock. The reverberations from the earthquake more than 1,500 miles away created what experts have called a \u201cdesert tsunami,\u201d which on Monday made waves [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}