{"id":305194,"date":"2025-12-08T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305194\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:07:07","slug":"magnitude-7-2-earthquake-strikes-off-japan-triggers-tsunami-alert-earthquakes-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305194\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes off Japan, triggers tsunami alert | Earthquakes News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKINGBREAKING, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Japan\u2019s Meteorological Agency says a tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet) could hit country\u2019s northeastern coast.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 8 Dec 20258 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan\u2019s coast, triggering a tsunami alert.<\/p>\n<p>An initial report by Japan\u2019s Meteorological Agency put the magnitude of the quake on Monday at 7.2.<\/p>\n<p>It said the earthquake struck off the coast of Aomori and Hokkaido, adding that a tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet) could hit Japan\u2019s northeastern coast.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of casualties or damages.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKINGBREAKING, Japan\u2019s Meteorological Agency says a tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet) could hit country\u2019s northeastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1296,2659,49,386,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-305194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-earthquakes","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}