{"id":302297,"date":"2018-09-06T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302297"},"modified":"2018-09-06T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:00:15","slug":"japan-rocked-by-magnitude-6-7-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/japan-rocked-by-magnitude-6-7-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan rocked by magnitude 6.7 earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300922 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/earthquake-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/earthquake-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/earthquake-622x420.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/earthquake.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/>An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 has hit Japan\u2019s northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, causing huge landslides that engulfed houses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the\u00a0Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the major temblor hit Hokkaido prefecture at 3.08 a.m. (Japan time) with the epicentre at a latitude of 42.7 degrees north and a longitude of 142.0 degrees east, and at depth of 40 kilometers below southern Hokkaido.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The earthquake was logged between 6 and 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in the southeast of Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere might be a slight sea-level change in Japan&#8217;s coastal areas as a result of the magnitude 6.7 quake\u201d, said Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several residents were reported trapped among others injured as a result of the quake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many incidents of house collapses and landslides have also been reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rescue work is under way for those possibly buried under the houses, according to local officials.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 has hit Japan\u2019s northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, causing huge landslides that engulfed houses. According to the\u00a0Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the major temblor hit Hokkaido prefecture at 3.08 a.m. (Japan time) with the epicentre at a latitude of 42.7 degrees north and a longitude of 142.0 degrees east, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[430,4783,2507,4784,4782,4785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302298,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302297\/revisions\/302298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}