{"id":747382,"date":"2013-04-19T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=225834"},"modified":"2013-04-19T12:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:53:57","slug":"7-2-quake-off-japan-rocks-northern-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747382","title":{"rendered":"7.2 Quake Off Japan Rocks Northern Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the planet&#8217;s recent surge of large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/earthquake\">earthquakes<\/a> isn&#8217;t quite over.  The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook the islands North of Japan on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The quake was centered around 250 km (155 miles) Northeast of the town of Kuril&#8217;sk, Russia and 521 km (324 miles) Northeast of Nemuro, Japan.  Kuril&#8217;sk is located on the string of islands located Northeast of Japan, and Nemuro is one of the Easternmost cities on the Japanese mainland.  No damage has been reported as a result of the quake.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service&#8217;s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has not issued a warning as a result of the earthquake, and neither has the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, over two consecutive days, earthquakes hit Iran and Papua New Guinea.  The earthquake that hit Iran was measured at a 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale and caused multiple fatalities in a rural area of Pakistan.  The 6.6-magnitude <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/6-8-earthquake-hits-papua-new-guinea-2013-04\">earthquake in Papua New Guinea<\/a> caused no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=mTTWOeCLj2A:TR2t-ThneAA:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/mTTWOeCLj2A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the planet&#8217;s recent surge of large earthquakes isn&#8217;t quite over. The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook the islands North of Japan on Friday morning. The quake was centered around 250 km (155 miles) Northeast of the town of Kuril&#8217;sk, Russia and 521 km (324 miles) Northeast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38qy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}