{"id":208470,"date":"2023-01-09T00:22:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=208470"},"modified":"2023-01-09T00:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:52:13","slug":"7-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-pacific-nation-of-vanuatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/7-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-pacific-nation-of-vanuatu\/","title":{"rendered":"7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Pacific Nation Of Vanuatu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sydney, Australia, 8 Jan: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast from the Pacific nation of Vanuatu late Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning for the region.<br \/>\nThe shallow quake hit around 11:30 pm local time (1230 GMT) around 27 kilometres (17 miles) deep, said the USGS, which placed it about 25 kilometres from the village of Port-Olry.<br \/>\n&#8220;Tsunami waves reaching 0.3 to one metre above the tide level are possible for some coasts of Vanuatu,&#8221; the NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii said.<br \/>\nWaves smaller than 0.3 metres were possible for New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, it added.<br \/>\nVanuatu is part of the Pacific &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221;, where tectonic plates collide, and it experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity.<br \/>\nSolomon Islands, a nearby island nation just north of Vanuatu, was in November hit with a strong 7.0 quake, though there were no reports of serious injuries or major structural damage.<br \/>\nEyewitnesses reported violent shaking that hurled items to the ground and knocked out power in parts of the capital Honiara.<br \/>\nThe coastal regions of Vanuatu and nearby Papua New Guinea was put on alert for tsunami waves of up to 30 centimetres (12 inches). AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Australia, 8 Jan: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast from the Pacific nation of Vanuatu late Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning for the region. The shallow quake hit around 11:30 pm local time (1230 GMT) around 27 kilometres (17 miles) deep, said the USGS, which placed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}