{"id":344872,"date":"2026-03-24T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344872\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:16:07","slug":"large-earthquake-strikes-tonga-no-tsunami-threat-for-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344872\/","title":{"rendered":"Large earthquake strikes Tonga, no tsunami threat for New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Tsunami sirens are blaring and evacuations under way after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Tonga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The quake hit about 150km west of Neiafu, Tonga at a depth of 237km at 5.38pm NZ time, the US Geological Survey said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After assessment by the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) and GNS Science, Nema said there is no tsunami threat to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tonga\u2019s National Disaster Risk Management Office and Tonga Meteorological Services have issued a tsunami warning for all of Tonga\u2019s coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Residents were warned to move immediately to higher ground, and avoid beaches, shorelines, and low-lying coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-below\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-below\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tsunami sirens are blaring and evacuations under way after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Tonga. The quake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,155637,6752,50924,2082,42,3242,20699,3180,117,43,7805,42612,19063,20705,1555,53476,40,38,41,39,20702,8238,80],"class_list":["post-344872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-blaring","tag-earthquake","tag-evacuations","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-large","tag-magnitude","tag-near","tag-new","tag-news","tag-no","tag-sirens","tag-strikes","tag-struck","tag-threat","tag-tonga","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tsunami","tag-under","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344872","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=344872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}