{"id":263816,"date":"2025-07-14T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263816\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:03:12","slug":"southeast-spain-rocked-by-earthquake-as-tourist-hotspots-suffer-severe-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263816\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Spain rocked by earthquake as tourist hotspots suffer severe floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish_date\">14 July 2025, 09:52 | Updated: 14 July 2025, 09:55<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Breaking News\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"188178\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752483792_996_188178\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Breaking News.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture:<br \/>\nGlobal<\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">A 5.5 magnitude earthquake has hit parts of southern Spain this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">It hit coastal areas popular with sunseekers, including Costa del Sol and Alicante.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Spain&#8217;s National Geographic Institute (IGN) registered the quake shortly after 7am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Elsewhere in Spain, severe storm and hail warnings have been issued leaving cars submerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has activated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/weather\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weather warnings<\/a> for 25 provinces, with eight orange cautions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The weather agency has warned tourists and locals to brace for severe storms in Huesca, Teruel and Zaragoza, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, and Castell\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>This is a developing story, more to follow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 July 2025, 09:52 | Updated: 14 July 2025, 09:55 Breaking News. Picture: Global A 5.5 magnitude earthquake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-263816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850785135038857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}