{"id":640209,"date":"2026-10-24T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:48:20","slug":"vanuatu-earthquake-7-2-magnitude-quake-struck-at-a-depth-of-10km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640209\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu earthquake: 7.2-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 10km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GPWBBLLW3JG5HII2PN7UEJAHZY.png\" alt=\"Jack Marshall\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/jack-marshall\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Marshall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>24 Oct, 2026 03:07 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck near Vanuatu, prompting a tsunami threat warning for coastlines within 300km of the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said hazardous tsunami waves were possible for parts of Vanuatu following the shallow quake, which hit at a depth of 10km.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         At this stage, the<br \/>\n         tsunami threat forecast applies only to Vanuatu, with no threat area identified for New Zealand.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities said an initial tsunami wave could reach parts of Vanuatu from about 3.31am New Zealand time, with further assessments continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Marshall Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 24 Oct, 2026 03:07 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[123700,313804,313802,1975,313803,92081,6752,189702,42,3180,43,1118,17216,42371,8206,20705,1555,40,38,41,39,20702,142351,1455,10119],"class_list":["post-640209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-10km","tag-300km","tag-72magnitude","tag-at","tag-coastlines","tag-depth","tag-earthquake","tag-epicentre","tag-headlines","tag-near","tag-news","tag-of","tag-powerful","tag-prompting","tag-quake","tag-struck","tag-threat","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tsunami","tag-vanuatu","tag-warning","tag-within"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640209","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=640209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}