{"id":3923,"date":"2011-03-16T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:22:33","slug":"minor-earthquake-trembles-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/16\/minor-earthquake-trembles-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake trembles North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit about halfway between Ottawa and Montreal this afternoon around 1:30pm.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsus\/Quakes\/ne00001232.php\">Here&#8217;s the official information from the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/a> The epicenter, according to that release, was <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=45.571%C2%B0N,+74.547%C2%B0W&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=%2B45%C2%B0+34%27+13.84%22,+-74%C2%B0+32%27+50.07%22&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=5BaBTejVDMyE0QH07c31CA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=image&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA\">East Hawkesbury, Ontario<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter and Facebook, people across northern St. Lawrence County, from Ogdensburg to Potsdam, said they felt the tremor.\u00a0 (I was in Canton and I did not.)<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, earthquakes of any size put people on edge as Japan continues to suffer from the fallout of its massive earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The North Country does sit in a pretty active &#8211; although generally not severe &#8211; fault zone.\u00a0 A quick search through NCPR&#8217;s archives turns up earthquakes in 2002, 2006, 2007, and just last summer.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/785\/20020422\/earthquake-rattles-north-country\">The most serious was in 2002<\/a>, when buildings were damaged in Clinton County.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/809\/20020423\/suny-potsdam-professor-tracks-earthquake\">Here&#8217;s SUNY Potsdam&#8217;s Frank Revetta<\/a> talking about the region&#8217;s seismic activity following that earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/17307\/20110315\/japan-crisis-could-derail-north-country-s-nuclear-dreams\">Listen to Brian Mann&#8217;s story this week <\/a>about how the region&#8217;s nuclear aspirations sit in the wake of Japan&#8217;s crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit about halfway between Ottawa and Montreal this afternoon around 1:30pm.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}