{"id":70780,"date":"2025-10-10T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/70780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:51:08","slug":"magnitude-7-8-earthquake-hits-off-tip-of-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/70780\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits off tip of South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4P0PP0L_image_crop_8275\" width=\"1050\" height=\"655\" alt=\"no caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile pic<br \/>\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>A tsunami threat was issued after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage, a body of water located between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said on Friday (local time).<\/p>\n<p>The quake was at a depth of 10km, the United States Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quake occurred after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/575560\/magnitude-7-point-4-earthquake-strikes-philippines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck offshore in the southern Philippines<\/a>, its seismology agency said o nFriday.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunami warnings were issued in several countries and people in nearby coastal areas were urged to move inland or to higher ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an update around noon local time saying the tsunami threat in the Philippines had passed, although warnings from other agencies remained in place.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>-Reuters <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File pic Photo: 123RF A tsunami threat was issued after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-70780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780","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=70780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}