{"id":116288,"date":"2021-03-05T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116288"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:46:56","slug":"peru-issues-tsunami-alert-after-nz-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116288","title":{"rendered":"Peru issues tsunami alert after NZ quake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Peru-issues-tsunami-alert-after-NZ-quake.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Peru-issues-tsunami-alert-after-NZ-quake.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, March 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Peru issued a tsunami warning for its coast but no evacuation order Thursday, after a cluster of powerful South Pacific earthquakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s National Emergency Operations Center reported \u201ca tsunami<br>alert on the Peruvian coast,\u201d with the arrival of a wave train \u201cestimated<br>during the early morning of March 5.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest in the cluster of quakes struck around 1,000 kilometers off the<br>New Zealand coast at 1928 GMT, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 8.1-magnitude quake followed earlier tremors in the same region<br>measuring 7.4 and 7.3, in an unusually strong cluster even for the Pacific<br>ring of fire, where the Earth\u2019s tectonic plates collide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru\u2019s emergency center said a \u201ctsunami alert is issued after a major<br>earthquake so that the population can prepare to evacuate to safe higher<br>ground if so determined by the authorities. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, March 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Peru issued a tsunami warning for its coast but no evacuation order Thursday, after a cluster of powerful South Pacific earthquakes. The country\u2019s National Emergency Operations Center reported \u201ca tsunamialert on the Peruvian coast,\u201d with the arrival of a wave train \u201cestimatedduring the early morning of March 5.\u201d The largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}