{"id":304838,"date":"2018-10-30T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304838"},"modified":"2018-10-30T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:29:11","slug":"new-zealand-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-new-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/new-zealand-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-new-plymouth\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake strikes near New Plymouth"},"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=\"458\" height=\"310\" 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: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near the town of New Plymouth in New Zealand, reported by the\u00a0United States Geological Survey (USGS).<\/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 reports, quake was recorded at 3:13 pm local time, at a depth of 227 kilometres on the North Island&#8217;s west coast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of people felt 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;\">Meanwhile the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington briefly suspended proceedings till further notice after the tremor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage reported so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">New Zealand has suffered damaging earthquakes in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In February 2011, Christchurch on the South Island was struck by a magnitude-6.3 earthquake which killed many people and injured several thousand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near the town of New Plymouth in New Zealand, reported by the\u00a0United States Geological Survey (USGS). According to the reports, quake was recorded at 3:13 pm local time, at a depth of 227 kilometres on the North Island&#8217;s west coast. Thousands of people felt the quake. [&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":[9088,9086,2127,9087],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304838"}],"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=304838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304839,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304838\/revisions\/304839"}],"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=304838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}