{"id":3231,"date":"2010-11-16T08:07:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T19:13:22","slug":"earthquake-shakes-felt-in-chehalis-marys-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake magnitude 4.2 hits between Mossyrock and Morton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This news story was updated at 8:30 a.m. and 11:10 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Authorities are reporting a magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Mossyrock occurred about 15 minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information indicates it hit at 7:51 a.m. three miles northeast of Mossyrock and eight miles west of Morton. It was recorded preliminarily as six miles below the ground, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.<\/p>\n<p>The computer generated message from the seismic network &#8211; not yet reviewed by a seismologist &#8211; describes it as a minor earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>At the Chehalis Fire Department, &#8220;the building just kinda went whooomp,&#8221; Firefighter Jay Birley said. One person had already called to ask what happened just before 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis County Fire District 5 Firefighter Kevin Van Egdom said his wife called from Marys Corner and told him she felt it go on for 25 to 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Call takers in Lewis County&#8217;s 911 center said they have gotten reports of an earthquake, but received conflicting information as to where it was.<\/p>\n<p>They have gotten no calls of injuries or damage so far. About 20 members of the public had called 911 about it as of 8:25 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>By 11 a.m., the seismic network was calling it a light earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2.<\/p>\n<p>The updated depth is record as 9.1 miles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Look at information from Pacific Northwest Seismic Network <a title=\"\u2022\u2022\u2022  Look at information from Pacific Northwest Seismic Network here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnsn.org\/recenteqs\/latest.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter This news story was updated at 8:30 a.m. and 11:10 a.m. Authorities are reporting a magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Mossyrock occurred about 15 minutes ago. Preliminary information indicates it hit at 7:51 a.m. three miles northeast of Mossyrock and eight miles west of Morton. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}