{"id":5709,"date":"2022-01-27T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:45:48","slug":"magnitude-6-2-earthquake-strikes-pangai-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/magnitude-6-2-earthquake-strikes-pangai-tonga\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Pangai, Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TONGA: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck about 136.1 miles west-northwest of Pangai, Tonga, on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake was at a depth of 14.5 km, the USGS said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake follows the massive volcanic eruption in the same Pacific region on Jan. 15. Tonga officials issued a tsunami warning in wake of the eruption scientists described as the \u201cloudest eruption since Krakatau in 1883.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tonga is still recovering from the volcanic aftermath. Emergency services transported clean water to the island last week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/tremors-in-dubai-abu-dhabi-after-6-7-magnitude-earthquake-hits-iran.html\">Tremors in Dubai &amp; Abu Dhabi after 6.7-magnitude earthquake hits Iran<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TONGA: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck about 136.1 miles west-northwest of Pangai, Tonga, on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The earthquake was at a depth of 14.5 km, the USGS said. The quake follows the massive volcanic eruption in the same Pacific region on Jan. 15. Tonga officials issued a tsunami warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[4166,4168],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-united-states-geological-survey","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}