{"id":301797,"date":"2010-02-10T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=17412"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:05:54","slug":"minor-earthquake-rattles-northern-illinois-no-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/301797","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake rattles northern Illinois; no damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CHICAGO — A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling sleepy-eyed residents as far away as Iowa and Indiana, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit about 50 miles northwest of Chicago at 4 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n

USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says such quakes are rare in northern Illinois. She says the agency received reports from Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana about feeling the ground shake. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sheriff’s dispatchers near the epicenter in Kane County say they’ve been flooded with calls from startled residents. But spokesman Lt. Pat Gengler says no injuries or damage have been reported.<\/p>\n

Residents reported being tossed out of bed and finding books and tools scattered across the floor.<\/p>\n

U.S. Geological Survey: usgs.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from Herald & Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CHICAGO — A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling sleepy-eyed residents as far away as Iowa and Indiana, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit about 50 miles northwest of Chicago at 4 a.m. Wednesday. USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says such quakes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}