{"id":22044,"date":"2016-09-23T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=22044"},"modified":"2016-09-23T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:38:17","slug":"widespread-power-outage-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/22044","title":{"rendered":"Widespread power outage in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/160922-23_suomi_npp_viirs_day_night_band_Puerto_Rico_power_outage_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/160922-23_suomi_npp_viirs_day_night_band_Puerto_Rico_power_outage_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 um) images: cloud-free &quot;clear view&quot; (31 Dec 2015) vs 22 September and 23 September 2016 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 um) images: cloud-free &#8220;clear view&#8221; (31 Dec 2015) vs 22 September and 23 September 2016 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A fire at the Aguirre power plant in Salinas (located along the southern coast of Puerto Rico) on 21 September 2016 triggered a widespread power outage across the island. A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 um) images of Puerto Rico on a cloud-free &#8220;clear view&#8221; night (31 December 2015) and the 2 nights following the power outage (22 and 23 September) is shown above (visualized using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a>); the nighttime glow of city lights is dramatically reduced on the 22 September image, while some restoration of power to much of the island &#8212; reportedly 75% &#8212; is apparent on the 23 September image.\u00a0 Additional details and images can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=88796&amp;src=share\"><strong>NASA Earth Observatory<\/strong><\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire at the Aguirre power plant in Salinas (located along the southern coast of Puerto Rico) on 21 September 2016 triggered a widespread power outage across the island. A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 um) images of Puerto Rico on a cloud-free &#8220;clear view&#8221; night (31 December 2015) and the 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22050,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions\/22050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}