{"id":438173,"date":"2026-01-28T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:49:07","slug":"earthquake-hits-orillia-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438173\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake hits Orillia area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck southern Ontario late Tuesday night, says the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca\/index-en.php\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca\/index-en.php\">Earthquakes Canada<\/a> says it happened at exactly 10:59 p.m., with the epicentre located 23 kilometres southeast of Orillia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The quake occurred at a depth of 5.0 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There are no reports of damage and according to MNR it was \u201clightly felt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scores of people across the region have since taken to social media to report that they felt tremors and shaking around 11 p.m. Some have also said they heard a loud bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck southern Ontario late Tuesday night, says the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR). Earthquakes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-438173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}