{"id":355230,"date":"2026-03-30T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355230\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:34:09","slug":"earthquake-of-magnitude-7-strikes-vanuatu-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355230\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes Vanuatu Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4LFGDQK_Luganville_town_Santo_Sanma_Province_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"538\" alt=\"Luganville town in Santo, Sanma Province\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLuganville town in Santo, Sanma Province (File photo).<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/Lily Lui\n<\/p>\n<p>No tsunami warning has been issued after a magnitude 7.3 quake in Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>The US Geological Service said the quake hit 35 kilometres northeast of Luganville, off the island of Sanma, about 9.45pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was 115 kilometres deep.<\/p>\n<p>The US Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not known if there has been any damage on nearby islands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luganville town in Santo, Sanma Province (File photo). Photo: Supplied\/Lily Lui No tsunami warning has been issued after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[48,47,273,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,147],"class_list":["post-355230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355230","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=355230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}