{"id":287645,"date":"2026-04-27T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287645\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:57:12","slug":"magnitude-6-1-earthquake-shakes-northern-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287645\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes northern Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook part of northern Japan early Monday, but no damage or casualties have been reported. <\/p>\n<p>No tsunami advisory was issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The quake struck 11 miles west of the town of Sarabetsu on Japan\u2019s northernmost main island of Hokkaido at a depth of 50 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It measured the quake\u2019s strength at 6.1 magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake prompted Japan to issue an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible megaquake for the nation\u2019s northeastern coastal areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook part of northern Japan early Monday, but no damage or casualties have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31682,2949,123190,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,4465,70540,2663,123187,123191,1459,8952,123189,7590,40264,123188],"class_list":["post-287645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-depth","tag-earthquake","tag-hokkaido","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-magnitude","tag-main-island","tag-mile","tag-northern-japan","tag-northern-japan-early-monday","tag-part","tag-quake","tag-sarabetsu","tag-strength","tag-town","tag-tsunami-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}