{"665001":{"#nid":"665001","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Inside the Elgin earthquake swarm","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn unprecedented wave of minor earthquakes focused near Elgin, a small town in Kershaw County in South Carolina,\u0026nbsp;have local residents struggling to describe what they\u0026rsquo;re experiencing. For a big chunk of 2022, \u0026ldquo;Did you feel that?\u0026rdquo; became almost as common a greeting as \u0026ldquo;How are you?\u0026rdquo; across the Midlands.\u0026nbsp;The U.S. Geological Survey refers to the Elgin phenomenon as a \u0026ldquo;swarm.\u0026rdquo; It began Dec. 27, 2021, with a magnitude 3.3 earthquake. Since then, upward of 80 earthquakes have been recorded.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor of geophysics in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;says magma or fluid movement can cause quakes, but scientists haven\u0026#39;t found evidence of those with the Elgin swarm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-23 18:44:53","changed_gmt":"2023-01-23 18:44:53","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/columbiametro.com\/article\/shake-rattle-and-roll\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"12122","name":"Zhigang Peng"},{"id":"12120","name":"earthquakes"},{"id":"191959","name":"earthquake swarms"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}