{"id":269070,"date":"2023-02-06T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=269070"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:51:37","slug":"strongest-earthquake-in-40-yrs-startles-western-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=269070","title":{"rendered":"Strongest Earthquake in 40 yrs Startles Western New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but apparently causing no significant damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m. Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it was the region&#8217;s strongest quake in at least 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shaking lasted a few seconds and sent residents first to their windows and then to social media in search of an explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo. I jumped out of bed,\u201d Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted. County emergency services officials confirmed the earthquake was felt in at least a 30-mile radius, including in Niagara Falls, about 20 miles north of Buffalo, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca\/recent\/2023\/20230206.1115\/index-en.php\">Earthquake Canada<\/a>, which measured a 4.2 magnitude event, reported it was felt slightly in southern Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small earthquakes are not unusual in upstate New York but are rarely felt as strongly. The earthquake comes on the heels of two record-breaking weather events in the region: A snowstorm that dropped as much as 7 feet of snow in November and a blizzard in December that is blamed for 47 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The western New York earthquake occurred hours after a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/earthquake-shakes-turkey-b927808f6a5c54bdb669120faa40b7bc\">powerful quake killed hundreds<\/a>&nbsp;in Turkey and Syria. A USGS spokesperson said there is no connection between the two events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but apparently causing no significant damage. The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":269071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269072,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269070\/revisions\/269072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}