{"id":508341,"date":"2026-04-02T04:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:40:23","slug":"vanuatu-earthquake-magnitude-7-3-quake-strikes-near-luganville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508341\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu earthquake: Magnitude 7.3 quake strikes near Luganville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department said there was no tsunami threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Residents in the Torba, Sanma, Penama, and Malampa provinces were warned, however, to stay away from the coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department said there was no tsunami threat. Residents in the Torba, Sanma, Penama,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[154835,28260,11152,1397,25003,156839,178174,87000,122472,90,15835,141296,6904,56,54,55,11526],"class_list":{"0":"post-508341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-154835","9":"tag-coast","10":"tag-earthquake","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-evening","13":"tag-luganville","14":"tag-magnitude","15":"tag-near","16":"tag-quake","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-strikes","19":"tag-struck","20":"tag-this","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom","24":"tag-vanuatu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508341","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=508341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}