{"id":22107,"date":"2022-05-19T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22107"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:10:35","slug":"australia-on-tsunami-alert-after-huge-6-7-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/19\/australia-on-tsunami-alert-after-huge-6-7-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-pacific-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia on tsunami alert after huge 6.7 magnitude earthquake rocks Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that a strong shake was felt at the epicentre of the quake.<\/p>\n

The quake was reportedly at a depth of 29.3km (18.21 miles).<\/p>\n

The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre has now said that Australia is on tsunami alert.<\/p>\n

But the US Tsunami Warning System has indicated a tsunami will likely pose little threat following the quake.<\/p>\n

This includes to Macquarie,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>surrounding island territories as well as mainland Australia.<\/p>\n

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The USGS originally registered the quake as having a magnitude of 7.3, but later revised this figure to 6.7.<\/p>\n

Macquarie Island lies\u00a0about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, and has been a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900.<\/p>\n

This is a breaking story. More to follow.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that a strong shake was felt at the epicentre of the quake. The quake was reportedly at a depth of 29.3km (18.21 miles). The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre has now said that Australia is on tsunami alert. But the US Tsunami Warning System has indicated a tsunami […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[5301,3347,8249,7280,5423,5187,8840,6653,7931,8594,9262,6348,3954],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-antarctica","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-earthquake","tag-lies","tag-new-zealand","tag-strong","tag-tasmania","tag-territories","tag-tsunami","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}