{"id":90,"date":"2008-04-18T05:50:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youfailit.net\/?p=90"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:11:12","slug":"light-midwest-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Light Midwest Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 10 minutes ago (approximately 5:35 EDT), I felt a light earthquake, which was preceded by an even weaker foreshock. I could feel the entire house move slightly, and heard some rumbling and creaking. One of my brothers called soon after, stating he felt the same thing. Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richter_scale#Richter_magnitudes\">this<\/a>, I estimate it to be about 4.0 on the Richter magnitude scale.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gxPvXBa_kwldln7jw_kNT0EsoE1QD90472KG0\">Associated Press brief<\/a><br \/>\nEDIT 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsus\/Maps\/US2\/38.40.-89.-87.php\">USGS map<\/a><br \/>\nEDIT 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/pasadena.wr.usgs.gov\/shake\/cus\/STORE\/X2008qza6\/ciim_stats_1.html\">Internet reports of activity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 10 minutes ago (approximately 5:35 EDT), I felt a light earthquake, which was preceded by an even weaker foreshock. I could feel the entire house move slightly, and heard some rumbling and creaking. One of my brothers called soon after, stating he felt the same thing. Based on this, I estimate it to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youfailit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}