{"id":6907,"date":"2026-08-31T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:24:00","slug":"charleston-south-carolina-experienced-a-major-earthquake-in-1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6907","title":{"rendered":"Charleston, South Carolina, Experienced a Major Earthquake in 1886"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10688\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10688\" class=\"wp-image-10688 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Charleston-earthquake-e1744739077766.gif\" alt=\"Charleston Earthquake\" width=\"100\" height=\"77\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charleston Earthquake<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Charleston, South Carolina, experienced a major earthquake (measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale) in 1886<\/strong>. The first major earthquake recorded in the eastern United States, it killed about one hundred people. The people of Charleston found unique ways to repair damage to their homes. Idea: Children could find out how and why earthquakes occur at the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">very interesting USGS site at<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0<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>Charleston, South Carolina, experienced a major earthquake (measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale) in 1886. The first major earthquake recorded in the eastern United States, it killed about one hundred people. The people of Charleston found unique ways to repair damage to their homes. Idea: Children could find out how and why earthquakes occur at <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6907' 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":[5525,5819,266,1396,267],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5525","tag-august-31","tag-charleston","tag-major-earthquake","tag-south-carolina","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\/6907","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=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29667,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/29667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}