{"id":179944,"date":"2025-12-12T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179944\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:05:13","slug":"tsunami-advisory-lifted-after-magnitude-6-9-earthquake-hits-japans-northeast-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179944\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami advisory lifted after magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Japan&#8217;s northeast region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JWI9CO_Japan_2025_12_12_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"852\" alt=\"An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 hit Japan's northeastern region on Friday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe 6.7 magnitude quake hit Japan&#8217;s northeastern region.<br \/>\nPhoto: USGS\n<\/p>\n<p>Japan has lifted a tsunami advisory issued after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the country&#8217;s northeastern region on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.<\/p>\n<p>The JMA earlier put the earthquake&#8217;s preliminary magnitude at 6.7.<\/p>\n<p>The quake struck at 11.44am (local time) off the coast of Aomori prefecture with a depth of 20 km, after a bigger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/581237\/powerful-7-point-5-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-japan-s-northeast-region\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7.5-magnitude earthquake<\/a> hit the same region late on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>After Monday&#8217;s earthquake, the government issued a special advisory warning residents across a wide area, from Hokkaido in the north to Chiba, east of Tokyo, to be on alert for an increased possibility of a powerful earthquake hitting again within a week.<\/p>\n<p>The tremor on Friday measured 4 on Japan&#8217;s 1-7 seismic intensity scale.<\/p>\n<p>-Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 6.7 magnitude quake hit Japan&#8217;s northeastern region. Photo: USGS Japan has lifted a tsunami advisory issued after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-179944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}