{"id":10922,"date":"2024-08-09T04:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2024-08-09T04:45:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:45:55","slug":"quake-with-7-1-magnitude-hits-western-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10922","title":{"rendered":"Quake with 7.1 magnitude hits western Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, but there were no immediate signs of major damage.<\/p>\n<p>The quake initially triggered tsunami advisories for Japan&#8217;s coastline, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, though national broadcaster NHK later said they had been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>There had been no reports of abnormalities at nuclear power plants following the quake, and the government is checking for damage and casualties, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The quake occurred about 4.43pm (0743 GMT) off Miyazaki prefecture on the western major island of Kyushu, the JMA said.<\/p>\n<p>In Miyazaki, waves as high as 50cm were observed after the quake, public broadcaster NHK said.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; Reuters<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, but there were no immediate signs of major damage. The quake initially triggered tsunami advisories for Japan&#8217;s coastline, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, though national broadcaster NHK later said they had been lifted. There had been no reports of abnormalities at nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}