{"id":310,"date":"2007-08-02T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2007-08-02T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T07:52:28","slug":"an-earthquake-hits-sakhalin-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/310\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earthquake Hits Sakhalin Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/08\/02\/europe\/EU-GEN-Russia-Japan-Quake.php\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake<\/a> measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale has hit Sakhalin Island near the town of Kholmsk, no doubt causing several thousand dollars worth of improvements.\u00a0 More seriously, one woman was killed in the nearby town of Nevel&#8217;sk when a roof collapsed.\u00a0 I wrote about my visit to both of these towns last October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=236\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is mild confusion in the town of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.\u00a0 The oil companies, always with one eye on a potential lawsuit, sent all their employees home before the\u00a0quake had completed\u00a0a single\u00a0oscillatory cycle.\u00a0 By contrast, the oilfield service providers refused to unlock their workers from their chains, cracked the whip harder, and laughed louder.\u00a0 On the way home I noticed a lot of Russians stood around outside their workplaces doing nothing\u00a0and looking gormless.\u00a0 This marks a change from business as usual only\u00a0by way of their physical location.<\/p>\n<p>My mother-in-law has been watching the news from St. Petersburg, and has rung up to inquire as to our safety.\u00a0 So far, the wallpaper is doing a good job of holding our apartment together and continues to look strong.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about Sakhalin&#8217;s earthquakes in a less glib fashion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=259\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale has hit Sakhalin Island near the town of Kholmsk, no doubt causing several thousand dollars worth of improvements.\u00a0 More seriously, one woman was killed in the nearby town of Nevel&#8217;sk when a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/310\/\">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":[],"categories":[49,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}