{"id":661438,"date":"2026-05-11T03:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661438\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:23:27","slug":"earthquake-rumbles-northeast-of-edmonton-heartland-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661438\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake rumbles northeast of Edmonton \u2013 Heartland News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778469807_692_image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16105\"  \/>Location of earthquake northeast of Fort Saskatchewan on May 9, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>A 4.0 magnitude earthquake was felt in central Alberta yesterday, with the rumble taking place approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Fort Saskatchewan. <\/p>\n<p>The seismic activity was lightly felt by those living in the area, with no damage being reported to Earthquakes Canada at the time of the story being written. <\/p>\n<p>The earthquake originated at a depth of two kilometres and was a relatively small shake, with it being a 4.0 magnitude. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second earthquake to hit the Greater Edmonton Area this year, with a similarly small, 4.5 magnitude earthquake hitting approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/heartlandnews.ca\/2026\/04\/02\/small-earthquake-felt-north-of-morinville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">18 kilometres northeast of Morinville in early April<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location of earthquake northeast of Fort Saskatchewan on May 9, 2026. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake was felt in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-661438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661438","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=661438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}