{"id":359492,"date":"2026-04-02T01:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359492\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:29:21","slug":"7-4-magnitude-offshore-earthquake-hits-eastern-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359492\/","title":{"rendered":"7.4-magnitude offshore earthquake hits eastern Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 7.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred off the coast of Indonesia. Photo \/ US Geological Survey<\/p>\n

A major 7.4-magnitude offshore earthquake has struck in eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with a US monitoring centre issuing a warning of possible \u201chazardous tsunami waves\u201d within 1000km of the epicentre.<\/p>\n

\n The quake hit at a local time of 6.48am at a depth of 35km in the
\n Molucca Sea, the USGS said, off the small island of Ternate.\n <\/p>\n

The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said hazardous tsunami waves were possible \u201cwithin 1000 km of the epicentre\u201d along the coasts of Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia.<\/p>\n

An AFP journalist in Manado, North Sulawesi province, said the shaking woke him and others in the city, who rushed outdoors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI immediately woke up and left my house. People [were] immediately scrambling outside. There is a school and the pupils rushed outside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 2 Apr, 2026 12:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[175327,20704,1550,6752,11585,189702,20707,139158,42,4508,5696,80139,661,25306,43,4732,17398,3048,20705,8822,40,38,41,39,20702,20708,1455,13745,102,10119],"class_list":["post-359492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-1000km","tag-74magnitude","tag-centre","tag-earthquake","tag-eastern","tag-epicentre","tag-geological","tag-hazardous","tag-headlines","tag-hits","tag-indonesia","tag-issuing","tag-major","tag-monitoring","tag-news","tag-offshore","tag-possible","tag-said","tag-struck","tag-survey","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tsunami","tag-usgs","tag-warning","tag-waves","tag-with","tag-within"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359492","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=359492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}