{"id":624,"date":"2018-02-13T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/?p=624"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:14:00","slug":"quaking-the-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/quaking-the-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaking the Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students at the University of Maryland Seismology Lab sprung into action following the M4.1 earthquake that struck Dover, Delaware on November 30, 2017. The very next day, they were out in the field, deploying seismometers that would be recording aftershocks for the next 6 weeks. Thank you Erin, Chao, Phillip, Karen, Pete, and Quancheng for carrying out the deployment and collecting valuable data on East Coast seismicity!<\/p>\n<p>Here, Phillip Goodling (right) and Pete Meehan (left) are deploying an instrument.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0589-e1518560393322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0589-e1518560706168.jpg\" alt=\"Phillip Goodling (right) and Pete Meehan (left) are deploying an instrument to record aftershocks after an earthquake in Delaware\" width=\"480\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0589-e1518560706168.jpg 2227w, https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0589-e1518560706168-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0589-e1518560706168-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0589-e1518560706168-742x1024.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>which Quancheng Huang (left) and Chao Gao (right) had to go retrieve several weeks later:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_4373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_4373-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Quancheng Huang (left) and Chao Gao (right) retrieving the seismic recording equipment that recorded aftershocks.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_4373-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_4373-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_4373-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students at the University of Maryland Seismology Lab sprung into action following the M4.1 earthquake that struck Dover, Delaware on November 30, 2017. The very next day, they were out in the field, deploying seismometers that would be recording aftershocks for the next 6 weeks. Thank you Erin, Chao, Phillip, Karen, Pete, and Quancheng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/facilities\/seismology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}