{"id":346026,"date":"2026-03-24T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:50:14","slug":"large-earthquake-strikes-tonga-no-tsunami-threat-for-new-zealand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346026\/","title":{"rendered":"Large earthquake strikes Tonga, no tsunami threat for New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Tonga\u2019s National Disaster Risk Management Office and Tonga Meteorological Services issued a tsunami warning for Tonga\u2019s coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Residents were warned to move immediately to higher ground, and avoid beaches, shorelines, and low-lying coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The tsunami warning was subsequently lifted for Tongatapu, \u2018Eua, Ha\u2019apai and the Niuas, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">It remains in place for Vava\u2019u, according to Tonga Meteorological Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonga\u2019s National Disaster Risk Management Office and Tonga Meteorological Services issued a tsunami warning for Tonga\u2019s coastal areas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[74,184234,6752,273,36662,2082,3242,20699,3180,117,111,139,7805,69,530,147,42612,19063,20705,1555,6859,53476,20702,80],"class_list":["post-346026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-after","tag-blared","tag-earthquake","tag-environment","tag-evacuate","tag-for","tag-large","tag-magnitude","tag-near","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-residents","tag-science","tag-sirens","tag-strikes","tag-struck","tag-threat","tag-told","tag-tonga","tag-tsunami","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346026","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=346026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}