{"id":3201,"date":"2016-09-25T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2016-09-25T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:00:50","slug":"australia-is-on-the-move-the-continent-is-moving-north-at-a-rate-of-7-cmyear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2016\/09\/25\/australia-is-on-the-move-the-continent-is-moving-north-at-a-rate-of-7-cmyear\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia is on the move &#8211; the continent is moving North at a rate of 7 cm\/year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wocc\">WHY IS AUSTRALIA MOVING?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ins cleared xolcc bdrcc\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The movement of the Earth&#8217;s tectonic plates makes land slide and causes a build up of tension.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Australian plate is the fastest continental plate on the planet, moving northwards and slightly to the east by about 2.7 inches (7 centimetres) each year.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This tension drags the entire landmass of Australia closer to the equator year after year.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Even though the movement is fractional, only 2.7 inches (7 centimetres) each year, a build up over 22 years means each point in the country is not actually where our GPS systems think it is.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?attachment_id=3198\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3198\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2016\/09\/Australian-Continent.jpg\" alt=\"australian-continent\" width=\"634\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY IS AUSTRALIA MOVING? The movement of the Earth&#8217;s tectonic plates makes land slide and causes a build up of tension. The Australian plate is the fastest continental plate on the planet, moving northwards and slightly to the east by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2016\/09\/25\/australia-is-on-the-move-the-continent-is-moving-north-at-a-rate-of-7-cmyear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}