{"id":142195,"date":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142195\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","slug":"map-7-1-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142195\/","title":{"rendered":"Map: 7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201clight,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  \u00a0All times on the map are Eastern. The New York Times <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">A major, 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck in the South China Sea on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">The temblor happened at 11:57 a.m. Eastern about 34 miles northwest of Kota Belud, Malaysia, data from the agency shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake\u2019s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Source: United States Geological Survey | Notes: Shaking categories are based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/programs\/earthquake-hazards\/modified-mercalli-intensity-scale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Modified Mercalli Intensity<\/a> scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Eastern. Shake data is as of Sunday, Feb. 22 at 12:10 p.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is as of Sunday, Feb. 22 at 7:12 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201clight,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11938,9,11,10,59796],"class_list":{"0":"post-142195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-malaysia","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-south-china-sea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}