{"id":103348,"date":"2023-01-15T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=103348"},"modified":"2023-01-15T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:45:55","slug":"only-caring-for-the-earth-when-disaster-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/only-caring-for-the-earth-when-disaster-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Caring for the Earth When Disaster Strikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-103353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Earth-and-Disasters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Earth-and-Disasters.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Earth-and-Disasters-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Earth-and-Disasters-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Earth-and-Disasters-525x350.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we predict earthquakes? Kusala Rajendran explained that we can predict that an earthquake will come and can identify its scale, but we can never predict `when.`<\/p>\n<p>She said that &#8220;there are known unknowns and unknown knows.&#8221; It is imminent that earthquakes will happen in many places near the Himalayas. He also mentioned the latest earthquake that happened in Nepal (scale 7.6).<\/p>\n<p>Even if we give 40 million years to nature, what humans have destroyed in 40 years cannot be reversed. When asked, &#8220;Can we predict disasters with exotic species?&#8221; CP Rajendran said that there are instances where we can doubt their behaviour and predict it, but it hasn&#8217;t been repeated anywhere. He said that &#8220;we can only say anything is science when it&#8217;s repeated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t we predict earthquakes? Kusala Rajendran explained that we can predict that an earthquake will come and can identify its scale, but we can never predict `when.` She said that &#8220;there are known unknowns and unknown knows.&#8221; It is imminent that earthquakes will happen in many places near the Himalayas. He also mentioned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":103353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103358,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103348\/revisions\/103358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}