{"id":3871,"date":"2010-06-23T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2010-06-23T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T19:51:32","slug":"tower-evacuated-after-earth-tremor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/06\/tower-evacuated-after-earth-tremor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower evacuated after earth tremor; classes not affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Posted: 2:50 p.m. Last updated: 3:51 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>University officials ordered the evacuation of Brock&#8217;s Schmon Tower around 2 p.m. Wednesday after it swayed briefly during an earth tremor.<\/p>\n<p>Staff who work in the tower and the University Library were sent home for the rest of the day while officials prepared to do a floor-by-floor inspection of the 14-storey structure. The Library and Learning Commons are closed for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the University remains open, and any classes for today will be held as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of damage, and it is expected the tower will be open for business as usual on Thursday morning. The Walker Complex has re-opened.<\/p>\n<p>Please watch this space for updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>The tremor felt in Niagara was the result of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake which was centred in rural Quebec at 1:41 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University officials ordered the evacuation of Brock&#8217;s Schmon Tower around 2 p.m. Wednesday after it swayed briefly during an earth tremor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}