{"id":311605,"date":"2025-12-12T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:18:08","slug":"japan-earthquake-tsunami-advisory-lifted-after-magnitude-6-7-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311605\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan earthquake: Tsunami advisory lifted after magnitude 6.7 earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is bracing for the &#8216;big one&#8217;published at 05:18 GMT<\/p>\n<p>05:18 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck north-eastern Japan on Monday, authorities again warned of the possibility of a future megaquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For a while now, Japan has been bracing for the &#8220;big one&#8221; &#8211; a once-in-a-century quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These so-called &#8220;megathrust&#8221; earthquakes tend to strike every hundred years or so, often in pairs: the last ones were in 1944 and 1946.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In September, Japan&#8217;s earthquake investigation panel said there was a 60-90% chance that a megaquake would occur in the Nankai Trough &#8211; an area of seismic activity which stretches along Japan&#8217;s Pacific coast &#8211; within the next 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had warned earlier that such an event could trigger a tsunami of more than 20m (66ft), causing around 300,000 deaths and trillions of dollars in economic damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan is bracing for the &#8216;big one&#8217;published at 05:18 GMT 05:18 GMT After a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-311605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311605","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=311605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}