{"id":3525,"date":"2009-10-01T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/10\/chris-on-the-radio\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T11:29:03","slug":"chris-on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/10\/chris-on-the-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris on the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\"\/><\/span>Completely out of the blue, I&#8217;ve asked to participate in a discussion on natural disasters on the <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/>BBC World Service<\/a>. The topic is presumably prompted by the two recent large earthquakes near <a href=http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/us2009mdbi.php>Samoa<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/us2009mebz.php>Indonesia<\/a>, and it seems they want a tame geologist to talk about earthquake prediction (or the lack thereof).<br \/>\nThe programme is called &#8216;<a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004cdst>World, Have Your Say<\/a>&#8216; and is being broadcast live from 1805 BST (which I think is 1305 EST for you Americans). Hopefully I won&#8217;t sound too out of my depth.<br \/>\n[<b>Update<\/b>: For those who want to hear me, <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004cdst>the programme is available on the BBC iPlayer for the next week<\/a>. I pop up for brief periods throughout (9.00-10.30, 18.35-19.45, 34:00-37.30 and 49:50-51.30 mins). I think I did OK; I wish I&#8217;d gotten more of a chance to talk about the issues of long-term preparedness, and getting the information that we <em>do<\/em> have better embedded in public and political consciousness.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completely out of the blue, I&#8217;ve asked to participate in a discussion on natural disasters on the BBC World Service. The topic is presumably prompted by the two recent large earthquakes near Samoa and Indonesia, and it seems they want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/10\/chris-on-the-radio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggery","category-public-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}