{"id":746594,"date":"2026-08-22T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746594\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:42:30","slug":"japan-earthquake-today-5-9-magnitude-quake-strikes-ibaraki-strong-shaking-hits-tokyo-weeks-after-deadly-tremor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746594\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Earthquake Today: 5.9-Magnitude Quake Strikes Ibaraki, Strong Shaking Hits Tokyo, Weeks After Deadly Tremor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo and the eastern Kanto region were shaken at around 2 am Sunday by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake centered in southern Ibaraki Prefecture at a depth of 70 kilometers, with shaking registering lower 5 on Japan\u2019s seven-point seismic scale. There was no threat of a tsunami. Lower 5 intensity shaking was recorded in parts of Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama and Chiba prefectures, according to Japanese authorities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo and the eastern Kanto region were shaken at around 2 am Sunday by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[44668,246643,1487,1397,386,123930,90,6533,29129,56,54,55,235775],"class_list":["post-746594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-aeon","tag-akio-yoshida","tag-asia","tag-environment","tag-japan","tag-kumamoto","tag-science","tag-times-now","tag-tokyo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yoshida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746594","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=746594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}