{"id":87282,"date":"2019-02-01T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-madrid-fault-zone-could-spawn-huge-quakes-in-u-s-midwest-south"},"modified":"2019-02-01T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T09:22:44","slug":"new-madrid-fault-zone-could-spawn-huge-quakes-in-u-s-midwest-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-madrid-fault-zone-could-spawn-huge-quakes-in-u-s-midwest-south","title":{"rendered":"New Madrid fault zone could spawn huge quakes in U.S. Midwest, South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-madrid-fault-zone-could-spawn-huge-quakes-in-u-s-midwest-south.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The New Madrid fault zone in the nation\u2019s midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201cnot dead yet,\u201d said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, who was part of the study published online Thursday by the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have long debated just how much of a hazard New Madrid (MAD\u2019-rihd) poses. The zone stretches 150 miles, crossing parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/new-madrid-fault-zone-could-spawn-huge-quakes-u-s-flna2D11988493\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/new-madrid-faul...2D11988493<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The New Madrid fault zone in the nation\u2019s midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported. It\u2019s \u201cnot dead yet,\u201d said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, who was part of the study published online Thursday by the journal Science. Researchers have long debated just how much of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}