{"id":307579,"date":"2018-12-29T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307579"},"modified":"2018-12-29T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:59:20","slug":"7-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-southern-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/7-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-southern-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"7.0 Magnitude Earthquake strikes southern Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/low-intensity-earthquake-felt-in-himachal-pradeshs-kangra-district\/earthquake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-300922\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300922 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/earthquake-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"445\" 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: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a>An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near\u00a0coast\u00a0of the southern Philippines on Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/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,\u00a0quake\u00a0was recorded at 11:39 a.m. at a depth of 60\u00a0kilometres\u00a0(Kms) and about 193\u00a0kms\u00a0southeast of Mindanao&#8217;s largest city, Davao, and approximately 100\u00a0kms\u00a0southeast of the city of Pondaguitan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Residents of the area said that the earthquake lasted about a minute and people rushed out of buildings, but there had been no major damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">USGS had issued Tsunami warning and later canceled their advisory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The USGS initially said the magnitude of the quake was 7.2 but later downgraded it to 7.0.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near\u00a0coast\u00a0of the southern Philippines on Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey. According to the reports,\u00a0quake\u00a0was recorded at 11:39 a.m. at a depth of 60\u00a0kilometres\u00a0(Kms) and about 193\u00a0kms\u00a0southeast of Mindanao&#8217;s largest city, Davao, and approximately 100\u00a0kms\u00a0southeast of the city of Pondaguitan. Residents of the area said [&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":[430,10453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307579"}],"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=307579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307580,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307579\/revisions\/307580"}],"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=307579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}