{"id":46019,"date":"2026-10-12T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46019"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:51:25","slug":"word-of-the-day-1152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/12\/word-of-the-day-1152\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Moreton wave<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A solar tsunami&#8211;formally known as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moreton_wave\">Moreton wave<\/a>&#8211;is a giant, fast-moving wave of hot plasma and magnetic energy that ripples across the surface of the sun. The shock front is taller than Earth, moving faster than 1 million mph.<em> [&#8220;<\/em>A SOLAR TSUNAMI<em>,&#8221; Dr. Tony Phillips, <strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know little of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heliophysics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heliophysics<\/a><\/em>, so this is new to me. Regular old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsunami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>tsunamis<\/em><\/a> are often triggered by underwater landslides, although earthquakes can trigger either the landslide or the tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>I think.<\/p>\n<p>The link states <em>solar tsunamis<\/em> are triggered by solar flares, so I have to wonder how good an analogy this might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moreton wave: A solar tsunami&#8211;formally known as a\u00a0Moreton wave&#8211;is a giant, fast-moving wave of hot plasma and magnetic energy that ripples across the surface of the sun. The shock front is taller than Earth, moving faster than 1 million mph. [&#8220;A SOLAR TSUNAMI,&#8221; Dr. Tony Phillips, Spaceweather.com] I know little \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/12\/word-of-the-day-1152\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46038,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019\/revisions\/46038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}