{"id":694,"date":"2011-03-11T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/03\/11\/huge-earthquake-89-hits-japan-tsunami-follows\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T07:47:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:47:39","slug":"huge-earthquake-89-hits-japan-tsunami-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/huge-earthquake-89-hits-japan-tsunami-follows\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Earthquake 8.9 Hits Japan; Tsunami Follows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A massive earthquake has struck off the northeast coast of Japan.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.9, upgrading earlier assessments.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The quake triggered a 4-meter tsunami that washed away cars and even buildings along the coast near the epicenter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.tanea.gr\/files\/2011-03-11\/thumbs\/JAPAN%2011%20NEW_450x.jpg \" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"241\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Other state media reported a tsunami as high as 10 meters, while televised images showed homes washed away in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Kyodo news agency said many people were reported injured in northern Japan.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Several buildings were on fire in Tokyo.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A tsunami warning or a tsunami alert has been issued for countries on the Pacific rim.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at a depth of 24 kilometers, off Honshu on Japan&#8217;s eastern coast.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive earthquake has struck off the northeast coast of Japan. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.9, upgrading earlier assessments. The quake triggered a 4-meter tsunami that washed away&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-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}