{"id":577568,"date":"2026-08-23T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577568\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:56:10","slug":"japan-earthquake-injures-dozens-nz-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577568\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan earthquake injures dozens &#8211; NZ Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Japan\u2019s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said that at least 37 people had suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A road is flooded in Koto Ward, Tokyo. Photo \/ The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A road is flooded in Koto Ward, Tokyo. Photo \/ The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The worst case was that of a woman in her 80s in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, who tried to leave her bed after the quake but fell and hurt her hip, according to the local government and media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The late-night quake disrupted regional train services in Tokyo on Sunday morning, according to the East Japan Railway Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A building in Saitama, north of Tokyo, also suffered minor damage, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u8a00\u554f\u6a4b\u306e\u4e0a\u304b\u3089\u898b\u305f\u9ad8\u901f\u3001\u30ba\u30f3\u30c9\u30b3\u63fa\u308c\u3066\u305f<br \/>\u30b5\u30a4\u30ec\u30f3\u3068\u8b66\u5831\u306a\u308b\u304b\u3089\u898b\u308b\u6642\u306f\u6c17\u3092\u3064\u3051\u3066\u6b32\u3057\u3044\u306e\u3060(\u306a\u3093\u304b\u8272\u3005\u9cf4\u308a\u3059\u304e\u3066\u3046\u308b\u3061\u3083\u3044) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c1nEpzCtdO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/c1nEpzCtdO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u4e38\u5c71 \u771f\u53f8@\u53cb\u9054\u304c\u6b32\u3057\u3044 (@marosuke2600_d) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marosuke2600_d\/status\/2091214471297655036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities are investigating if a water main that ruptured in a neighbourhood in the capital was related to the quake, Kyodo News said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The weather agency warned of an increased risk of landslides in the area as the quake could have loosened soil in the region, which was lashed by torrential downpours on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The agency also warned of the possibility of strong aftershocks in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said that at least 37 people had suffered minor injuries. A road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[238315,14226,6183,2245,6752,42,29510,6793,1759,5840,20699,284361,3180,43,384,20705,10809,11081,40,38,41,39,274],"class_list":["post-577568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bustling","tag-disrupting","tag-dozens","tag-early","tag-earthquake","tag-headlines","tag-injures","tag-injuring","tag-japan","tag-least","tag-magnitude","tag-megacity","tag-near","tag-news","tag-people","tag-struck","tag-sunday","tag-tokyo","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577568","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=577568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}