{"id":40326,"date":"2025-08-27T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/earthquake-swarm-shakes-greenwood-county-should-residents-be-concerned\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:00:41","slug":"earthquake-swarm-shakes-greenwood-county-should-residents-be-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/earthquake-swarm-shakes-greenwood-county-should-residents-be-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Swarm Shakes Greenwood County: Should Residents Be Concerned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGyjaPsfedw?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A swarm of small earthquakes has rattled Greenwood County, South Carolina, over the past several days \u2014 but experts say there\u2019s no cause for alarm. In this report from 7 News reporter Scarlett Lisjak, seismologists weigh in on the mysterious tremors and explain why these types of quakes are more common than most people realize.<\/p>\n<p>Since Friday, 11 quakes have hit the area, centered mostly around Lake Greenwood, with magnitudes ranging from 1.5 to 2.9. Experts from the USGS and local emergency management agencies say these shallow earthquakes are part of a natural phenomenon called an \u201cearthquake swarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the cause remains unknown, seismologists stress that the risk of larger, damaging quakes is very low due to the age and depth of fault lines in the eastern U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swarm of small earthquakes has rattled Greenwood County, South Carolina, over the past several days \u2014 but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}