{"id":8375,"date":"2024-08-08T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:58:56","slug":"powerful-earthquake-shakes-japan-tsunami-advisory-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/powerful-earthquake-shakes-japan-tsunami-advisory-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Earthquake Shakes Japan, Tsunami Advisory Issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tokyo, Japan<\/strong> \u2013 A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted Japan on Thursday afternoon, prompting a tsunami advisory for coastal areas. The temblor struck off the southern island of Kyushu at 4:42 p.m. local time (3:42 a.m. ET), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quake&#8217;s epicenter was located about 18 miles beneath the sea, and the agency issued a tsunami advisory for Kochi and Miyazaki prefectures, urging residents to evacuate immediately. While no significant structural damage has been reported thus far, Miyazaki Port experienced a surge of 20 inches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan is no stranger to seismic activity, situated in one of the world&#8217;s most earthquake-prone regions. The country has a robust early warning system and strict building codes in place to mitigate the impact of such natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan \u2013 A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted Japan on Thursday afternoon, prompting a tsunami advisory for coastal areas. The temblor struck off the southern island of Kyushu at 4:42 p.m. local time (3:42 a.m. ET), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake&#8217;s epicenter was located about 18 miles beneath [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}