{"675124":{"#nid":"675124","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New earthquake shakes Lake Lanier, continuing \u2018swarm\u2019 of seismic events","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Peach State is not typically a hotbed of seismic activity, but residents in pockets of North Georgia have been feeling some unexpected vibrations lately after the area has been jolted by five small earthquakes over the last 10 days.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia is located in the middle of the North American Plate, the vast tectonic plate that sits beneath almost all of North America, parts of the Caribbean, Greenland and much of the Atlantic Ocean. Earthquakes \u2014 particularly strong ones \u2014 are much more likely in places like California, which sit along major plate boundaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill, small earthquakes are fairly common in Georgia, experts say. The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/newman-dr-andrew\u0022\u003EAndy Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three earthquakes at Lake Lanier\u2019s southern end represent a \u201cswarm\u201d of seismic activity, but scientists say such clusters are also common.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGenerally, if you have one earthquake, the best place to guess where the next earthquake is going to occur is right near the same location,\u201d Newman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/earthquakes-shaking-north-georgia-may-160000498.html?guccounter=1\u0026amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v\u0026amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlNHxLVgiK_Am0y9OtWBO5BNT0-uaIJUzx1oqS8uMs5PjTsVHQNtwHqbXeavRUrR9_HJlKzSTOfNy8BSdVtakqX6ButstiV37b9RGIWqCWLa7EmHTaStzLcQ9O7RnAlibAvUjVL9WPNv61h4qfb7Ktuum6S67qVILy6gEbEAPHW\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMacon Telegraph\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-earthquakes-north-georgia.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Peach State is not typically a hotbed of seismic activity, but residents in pockets of North Georgia have been feeling some unexpected vibrations lately after the area has been jolted by five small earthquakes over the last 10 days.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia is located in the middle of the North American Plate, the vast tectonic plate that sits beneath almost all of North America, parts of the Caribbean, Greenland and much of the Atlantic Ocean. Earthquakes \u2014 particularly strong ones \u2014 are much more likely in places like California, which sit along major plate boundaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill, small earthquakes are fairly common in Georgia, experts say. The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/newman-dr-andrew\u0022\u003EAndy Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three earthquakes at Lake Lanier\u2019s southern end represent a \u201cswarm\u201d of seismic activity, but scientists say such clusters are also common.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGenerally, if you have one earthquake, the best place to guess where the next earthquake is going to occur is right near the same location,\u201d Newman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/earthquakes-shaking-north-georgia-may-160000498.html?guccounter=1\u0026amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v\u0026amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlNHxLVgiK_Am0y9OtWBO5BNT0-uaIJUzx1oqS8uMs5PjTsVHQNtwHqbXeavRUrR9_HJlKzSTOfNy8BSdVtakqX6ButstiV37b9RGIWqCWLa7EmHTaStzLcQ9O7RnAlibAvUjVL9WPNv61h4qfb7Ktuum6S67qVILy6gEbEAPHW\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMacon Telegraph\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-earthquakes-north-georgia.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-17 16:34:36","changed_gmt":"2024-06-18 16:53:41","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta Journal-Constitution ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta-news\/small-earthquakes-have-been-shaking-north-georgia-heres-what-experts-say-is-behind-them\/TBJ5ATKCEVHVFJ67CVWNXZ6QHI\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"}],"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":""}}}