{"id":724084,"date":"2026-06-25T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724084\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:13:12","slug":"powerful-6-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-northern-japan-meteorological-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724084\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake strikes off northern Japan, meteorological agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/origin-ap.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, June 24, 2026 11:13PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC News Live\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TOKYO (AP) &#8211;  &#8212; A powerful earthquake struck off Japan&#8217;s northern coast on Thursday, the meteorological agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 and occurred off the eastern coast of Iwate, but there is no danger of a tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake had a depth of about 50 kilometers (30 miles), it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The rattling occurred in the area where strong earthquakes have repeatedly been reported in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, June 24, 2026 11:13PM TOKYO (AP) &#8211; &#8212; A powerful earthquake struck off Japan&#8217;s northern coast on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[311420,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-724084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-311420","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}