{"id":428,"date":"2010-05-27T17:48:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/05\/27\/tsunami-warnings-issued-after-major-earthquake-off-vanuatu-2\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:48:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:48:43","slug":"tsunami-warnings-issued-after-major-earthquake-off-vanuatu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/tsunami-warnings-issued-after-major-earthquake-off-vanuatu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami warnings issued after major earthquake off Vanuatu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) &#8212; A major earthquake struck off the Vanuatu Islands on early Friday, seismologists said, prompting tsunami warnings for nearby coasts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The 7.4-magnitude earthquake at 4.14 a.m. local time (1714 UTC Thursday) was centered about 214 kilometers (133 miles) north-northwest of Santo, Vanuatu. It struck about 36.1 kilometers (22.4 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.\u00a0The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which initially measured the strength of the earthquake at 7.6, immediately issued a tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, the Vanuatu Islands, and New Caledonia.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;It is not known that a tsunami was generated,&#8221; the center said in its warning. &#8220;This warning is based only on the earthquake evaluation. An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicenter within minutes to hours.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/wireupdate.com\/wires\/5684\/tsunami-warnings-issued-after-major-earthquake-off-vanuatu\/<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/webimage\/countrys\/oceania\/maps\/vanuatu.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"342\" height=\"331\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#DDDDDD\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) &#8212; A major earthquake struck off the Vanuatu Islands on early Friday, seismologists said, prompting tsunami warnings for nearby coasts. \u00a0 The 7.4-magnitude earthquake at 4.14 a.m. local time (1714 UTC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}