{"id":146626,"date":"2022-09-18T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/strong-earthquake-hits-taiwan-triggers-tsunami-warning-in-japan"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:23:11","slug":"strong-earthquake-hits-taiwan-triggers-tsunami-warning-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/strong-earthquake-hits-taiwan-triggers-tsunami-warning-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake hits Taiwan, triggers tsunami warning in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strong-earthquake-hits-taiwan-triggers-tsunami-warning-in-japan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/is-taiwan-worried-china-threat-invasion-pelosi-visit-rcna41964\" target=\"_blank\">Taiwan<\/a> Sunday, derailing carriages and prompting tsunami warnings in southern Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> measured the quake at 7.2-magnitude before downgrading it to 6.9 and said the tsunami threat had passed.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwb.gov.tw\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Weather Bureau<\/a> said the quake, which struck near Taitung city on its southeastern coast, registered 6.8 magnitude and was a relatively shallow depth of 4 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan Sunday, derailing carriages and prompting tsunami warnings in southern Japan. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at 7.2-magnitude before downgrading it to 6.9 and said the tsunami threat had passed. Taiwan\u2019s Central Weather Bureau said the quake, which struck near Taitung city on its southeastern coast, registered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}