{"id":176943,"date":"2026-04-27T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:30:11","slug":"magnitude-6-2-earthquake-shakes-part-of-northern-japan-ap-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176943\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.2 earthquake shakes part of northern Japan | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 A magnitude 6.2 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 18 kilometers (11 miles) west of the small town of Sarabetsu on Japan&#8217;s northernmost main island of Hokkaido at a depth of 81 kilometers (50 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It measured the quake&#8217;s strength at 6.1 magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-earthquake-tsunami-0746aebae49fc6cc37e20836ca37d570\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 7.7 magnitude earthquake<\/a> prompted Japan to issue an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible megaquake for the nation&#8217;s northeastern coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook part of northern Japan early Monday, but no damage or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,79110,38,79109,9057,8039,301],"class_list":["post-176943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-earthquakes","tag-general-news","tag-japan-earthquake-north-sarabetsu-hokkaido","tag-natural-disasters","tag-science","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}