{"id":84487,"date":"2026-07-17T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84487"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:35:47","slug":"experimental-exlosion-rocks-florida-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/experimental-exlosion-rocks-florida-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Experimental Explosion&#8217; Rocks Florida Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the London Mail\u00a0<\/em>[caution, tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/16\/21\/110070749-15983553-The_US_Geological_Survey_detected_a_3_9_magnitude_earthquake_eas-m-20_1784233975286.jpg\" alt=\"The US Geological Survey detected a 3.9 magnitude earthquake east of Ponce Inlet, just south of Daytona Beach, at 3.04pm ET\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An unusual &#8216;experimental explosion&#8217; entry appeared on the government&#8217;s\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-062f2e20-8153-11f1-b1fa-1d5c1900dee0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/earthquakes\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">earthquake<\/a><\/span> tracking website, sparking questions about the mysterious event.\u00a0The US Geological Survey detected a 3.9 magnitude earthquake east of Ponce Inlet, just south of Daytona Beach, at 3.04pm ET on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The event was listed with a depth of 0 feet, indicating the seismic source was at or very near the surface, a characteristic more consistent with an explosion than a typical tectonic earthquake.\u00a0Meteorologist Nic Merianos with CBS Miami said on X that he has &#8216;never seen this before.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Mail\u00a0[caution, tabloid]: An unusual &#8216;experimental explosion&#8217; entry appeared on the government&#8217;s\u00a0earthquake tracking website, sparking questions about the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84489,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84487\/revisions\/84489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}