{"id":693124,"date":"2026-03-30T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/693124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:34:07","slug":"7-0-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-vanuatu-islands-south-pacific-no-tsunami-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/693124\/","title":{"rendered":"7.0-magnitude earthquake rocks Vanuatu Islands, South Pacific, no tsunami threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 7 earthquake struck the Vanuatu Islands on Monday (March 30), the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake, which occurred at a depth of 115 kilometres, does not pose a tsunami threat, according to the US Tsunami Warning Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies east of Australia, north-east of New Caledonia, and west of Fiji. The country is an archipelago of about 83 islands and is part of the region known as Melanesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 7 earthquake struck the Vanuatu Islands on Monday (March 30), the German Research Centre for Geosciences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":693125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[290213,290216,746,290214,290218,290215,159,290212,67119,67,132,68,290210,290211,290217],"class_list":["post-693124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-7-0-magnitude-earthquake","tag-earthquake-news","tag-environment","tag-gfz-earthquake-report","tag-natural-disaster-south-pacific","tag-pacific-islands-seismic-activity","tag-science","tag-south-pacific-earthquake","tag-tsunami-alert","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vanuatu-earthquake","tag-vanuatu-islands-quake","tag-vanuatu-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}