{"id":119214,"date":"2026-07-28T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=119214"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:25:03","slug":"powerful-7-1-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-japan-tsunami-alert-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/powerful-7-1-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-japan-tsunami-alert-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolts Japan, tsunami alert issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/japan-bans-import-of-indian-mangoes-after-20-years\/\">Japan<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a tsunami alert.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu at 4:27 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake was recorded at a magnitude of 7 on Japan&#8217;s Shindo scale, the highest level, which indicates very strong ground shaking.<\/p>\n<p>The agency warned that the earthquake could generate tsunami waves about three feet high, which are expected to hit the coast by 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state broadcaster NHK, there have been reports of waves of this height in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is one of the countries in the world where earthquakes occur the most.<\/p>\n<p>The country sits on the western edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire, where four major tectonic plates meet, causing hundreds of earthquakes every year.<\/p>\n<p>The country, with a population of about 125 million, experiences about 18 percent of the world&#8217;s earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is still reeling from the devastating 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that killed or left nearly 18,500 people dead or missing, and severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a tsunami alert. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu at 4:27 p.m. local time. The earthquake was recorded at a magnitude of 7 on Japan&#8217;s Shindo scale, the highest level, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":119215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2197,43979],"class_list":["post-119214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-japan","tag-tsunami-alert-issued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119216,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119214\/revisions\/119216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}