{"id":44471,"date":"2011-08-23T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44471"},"modified":"2011-08-23T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T23:55:54","slug":"5-9-earthquake-jolts-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/5-9-earthquake-jolts-east-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"5.9 Earthquake Jolts US East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44480\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NYC-EARTHQUAKE1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44480\" title=\"NYC-EARTHQUAKE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NYC-EARTHQUAKE1-255x300.jpg?resize=255%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NYC-EARTHQUAKE1.jpg?resize=255%2C300&amp;ssl=1 255w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NYC-EARTHQUAKE1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the first earthquake to occur in this region of the US in over a century. Graphic courtesy of the US Geological Survey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/post\/alert-earthquake-rocks-central-virginia-dc-region\/2011\/08\/23\/gIQAMwvEZJ_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake with the magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale<\/a>\u00a0occurred today at 1:53 pm, with its epicenter in Mineral, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake&#8217;s impact was felt in major cities on the East Coast, including Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Items were jolted off shelves, and in more severe cases, buildings &#8212; including JFK Airport in New York &#8212; were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is reporting Virginia has recorded only 25 earthquakes since it became a state. The last time an earthquake occurred in that state was more than a century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake with the magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale\u00a0occurred today at 1:53 pm, with its epicenter in Mineral, Virginia. The earthquake&#8217;s impact was felt in major cities on the East Coast, including Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City. Items were jolted off shelves, and in more severe cases, buildings &#8212; including &#8230; <a title=\"5.9 Earthquake Jolts US East Coast\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/5-9-earthquake-jolts-east-coast\/\" aria-label=\"More on 5.9 Earthquake Jolts US East Coast\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}