{"670440":{"#nid":"670440","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Elgin Earthquakes return: What have we learned?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Elgin, S.C., community has been shaken by over 80 earthquakes since December 2021, and after four months of no tremors, the area has started shaking again.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe weren\u0027t expecting anything to come back, and then these two in the last three days have reminded us it\u2019s not over yet,\u0022 said Daniel Frost, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Department\u0027s of Earth, Ocean \u0026amp; Environmental College.\u0026nbsp;After studying the data, Frost and his collaborator, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, have come up with an idea. \u201cOur theory is they are occurring on a fault of the Eastern Piedmont fault system, which is a known fault system, not an active fault system but known,\u0022 Frost said. \u0022Any earthquakes happening on these pre-existing faults are just kind of resettling and shuffling, maybe a little of disturbance because something has changed, but it\u0027s not the kind of ongoing tectonics like on the West Coast.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Elgin, S.C., community has been shaken by over 80 earthquakes since December 2021, and after four months of no tremors, the area has started shaking again.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe weren\u0027t expecting anything to come back, and then these two in the last three days have reminded us it\u2019s not over yet,\u0022 said Daniel Frost, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Department\u0027s of Earth, Ocean \u0026amp; Environmental College.\u0026nbsp;After studying the data, Frost and his collaborator, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, have come up with an idea. \u201cOur theory is they are occurring on a fault of the Eastern Piedmont fault system, which is a known fault system, not an active fault system but known,\u0022 Frost said. \u0022Any earthquakes happening on these pre-existing faults are just kind of resettling and shuffling, maybe a little of disturbance because something has changed, but it\u0027s not the kind of ongoing tectonics like on the West Coast.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-10-16 14:46:16","changed_gmt":"2023-10-16 14:46:16","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"WLTX Columbia, S.C.","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/street-squad\/elgin-earthquakes-return-2023\/101-e40a2d16-ac9b-4601-aff1-53d150beb10c","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"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"}],"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":""}}}