{"id":31031,"date":"2025-07-29T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31031\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:38:08","slug":"magnitude-6-2-earthquake-strikes-macquarie-island-region-making-it-the-second-one-in-just-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31031\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Macquarie Island region &#8211; making it the second one in just two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-3761\/zak-wheeler.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZAK WHEELER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  05:09 BST, 27 July 2025   |  Updated:  05:20 BST, 27 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A shallow <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/earthquakes\/index.html\" id=\"mol-821d54b0-6a9f-11f0-885d-e5bc92b51537\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earthquake<\/a> has hit the\u00a0Macquarie Island region for the second time in just as many days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 6.2 magnitude quake struck the Southern Ocean, 1,500km southeast of Tasmania<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new_zealand\/index.html\" id=\"mol-822013d0-6a9f-11f0-885d-e5bc92b51537\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a>, at 4.15pm on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was recorded at a depth of 10 km, according to the\u00a0European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There is\u00a0a low likelihood of casualties or damage to buildings and\u00a0no\u00a0tsunami threat has been issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Another 6.2 magnitude earthquake previously struck the region at\u00a011.22am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5447755707c0ebbd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100667745-14944287-image-a-96_1753589224893.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A 6.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Macquarie Island at 4.15pm on Saturday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A 6.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Macquarie Island at 4.15pm on Saturday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8fe623a9898cb0f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100667759-14944287-image-a-95_1753589221478.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\" alt=\"This is the second quake to hit the area in two days (pictured, Macquarie Island)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">This is the second quake to hit the area in two days (pictured, Macquarie Island)<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Macquarie Island region &#8211; making it the second one in just two days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ZAK WHEELER Published: 05:09 BST, 27 July 2025 | Updated: 05:20 BST, 27 July 2025 A shallow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,100,75,1736,44,128],"class_list":["post-31031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dailymail","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}