{"id":90047,"date":"2019-04-28T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/fortnites-earthquake-event-has-already-started"},"modified":"2019-04-28T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:42:15","slug":"fortnites-earthquake-event-has-already-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/fortnites-earthquake-event-has-already-started","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite\u2019s Earthquake Event Has Already Started"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019ve been playing Fortnite<\/em> in the past day or so, you may have heard a rumble. It\u2019s a little one, right now\u2014some players likely didn\u2019t notice it amid a field of explosions and shotgun blasts\u2014but it\u2019s definitely happening. Social media is full of reports that the leaked Earthquake event is in fact already underway, albeit apparently in its very early stages. It\u2019s unclear what\u2019s going to happen or what\u2019s going to come of it, but the fact that it\u2019s already started makes it clear that this is happening now, not later.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know much about the earthquake yet, mostly because whatever files are going to be used to govern it are likely yet to come with next week\u2019s patch. But we can assume that the tremors we\u2019re feeling now are at the very low end of what\u2019s to come, and leaked files indicate that they could get to be around 70 times stronger. It\u2019s also not so much of a leap to assume that we\u2019re going to get some cracks opening up throughout the map, and maybe even a volcano to balance out the icy biome that we got with season 7.<\/p>\n

The earthquake would appear to be in some way tied to the Prisoner skin, who may be some sort of disgraced Fire King reclaiming his throne. Traditionally the challenge skin plays some role in ushering in the next season, and he may be on his way to summon up some grand fire storm akin to the ice storm from earlier in the season, or something like that. An earthquake follows from that and offers up a chance to transform the map on a fairly grand level: as big as the ice biome was, the rest of the map was relatively unaffected save the addition of ziplines.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve been playing Fortnite in the past day or so, you may have heard a rumble. It\u2019s a little one, right now\u2014some players likely didn\u2019t notice it amid a field of explosions and shotgun blasts\u2014but it\u2019s definitely happening. Social media is full of reports that the leaked Earthquake event is in fact already underway, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90047","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}