{"id":508220,"date":"2026-04-02T03:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:09:08","slug":"magnitude-7-4-earthquake-strikes-off-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508220\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake struck in the Molucca Sea near Indonsia on Thursday morning, prompting a tsunami alert that was later lifted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One person was killed from falling rubble in the\u00a0Manado area of Indonesia, Reuters reported, cited local media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. authorities had issued a tsunami warning for the coast of Indonesia, with smaller waves possible in other areas incuding Japan, but the alert was lifted later in the morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/bosai\/map.html#4\/25.367\/138.46\/&amp;elem=warn&amp;contents=tsunami&amp;lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ctsunami forecast\u201d<\/a> warning of slight sea level changes for the nation\u2019s Pacific coast, but this alert level does not predict damage in the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude 7.4 quake struck off Indonesia at 7:48 a.m., according to the JMA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong earthquake struck in the Molucca Sea near Indonsia on Thursday morning, prompting a tsunami alert that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[21915,2659,1397,2183,90,19968,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-508220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-disasters","9":"tag-earthquakes","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-indonesia","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tsunami","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508220","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=508220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}