{"id":5295,"date":"2026-06-01T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:03:45","slug":"first-recorded-earthquake-in-america-1638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5295","title":{"rendered":"First Recorded Earthquake in America &#8211; 1638"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First recorded American earthquake occurred in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1638. <\/strong>Since English citizens had rarely experienced earthquakes, the colonists did not even have a word to describe their experience. Scientists today believe the earthquake was between a 6.5 to 7 on the Richter Magnitude Scale, making the earthquake one of the strongest ever in New England. Children could visit a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WONDERFUL<\/span><\/strong> interactive site, including a map of earthquakes that have occurred today, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/kids\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First recorded American earthquake occurred in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1638. Since English citizens had rarely experienced earthquakes, the colonists did not even have a word to describe their experience. Scientists today believe the earthquake was between a 6.5 to 7 on the Richter Magnitude Scale, making the earthquake one of the strongest ever in New <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5295' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5590,156,5589,158,157],"class_list":["post-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5590","tag-first-recorded-american-earthquake","tag-june-1","tag-massachusetts","tag-plymouth","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24599,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions\/24599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}