{"id":51831,"date":"2019-11-24T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51831"},"modified":"2019-11-24T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:09:00","slug":"5-9-magnitude-quake-jolts-new-zealand-felt-by-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51831","title":{"rendered":"5.9-Magnitude Quake Jolts New Zealand, Felt By Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WELLINGTON, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit North Island, New Zealand, on Sunday (this) morning and was felt by thousands of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 5,000 people reported feeling the earthquake, which happened offshore around 5:34 a.m. local time. There is no report of human casualty yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earthquake, which struck out at sea, about 50 kilometres north-west of Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty, in the North Island of New Zealand, was initially rated as 5.3-magnitude but has been upgraded to 5.9-magnitude. The depth of the earthquake is 115 kilometres down the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeoNet, which monitors seismic activity in New Zealand, said, deeper quakes such as this were often widely felt, especially on the East Coast of North Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At about 7.30 a.m., the agency said, it had reviewed the quake and upgraded it from a 5.3 to a 5.9. It reminded people to &#8220;drop, cover, and hold on&#8221; in the event of an earthquake.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit North Island, New Zealand, on Sunday (this) morning and was felt by thousands of people. More than 5,000 people reported feeling the earthquake, which happened offshore around 5:34 a.m. local time. There is no report of human casualty yet. The earthquake, which struck out at sea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51831"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}