{"id":11270,"date":"2011-03-11T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2011-03-11T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:12:07","slug":"tsunami-hits-japan-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/tsunami-hits-japan-1869\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami Hits Japan after Massive Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tsunami-hits-japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11272\" title=\"Tsunami Hits Japan after Massive Quake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tsunami-hits-japan-280x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tsunami-hits-japan-280x160.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tsunami-hits-japan.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Tsunami Hits Japan after Massive Quake<\/h1>\n<p>A powerful tsunami triggered by the largest earthquake in Japan&#8217;s recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people.<\/p>\n<p>A massive earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale struck Japan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Kyodo news agency said at least 15 people were killed while the government has confirmed only five deaths so far.<\/p>\n<p>State-run NHK footage shows large waves of tsunami slamming the coastal areas of the country, sweeping cars and houses and destroying farmlands, and carrying them out to sea<\/p>\n<p>The biggest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years slammed the east coast of Japan&#8217;s main Honshu Island at 2:45 pm (0545 GMT), shook buildings in Tokyo violently.<\/p>\n<p>The meteorological agency of Japan had issued a tsunami warning in wide areas of the eastern coast of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The region was also hit by several other strong earthquakes measuring 6 or above on the Richter scale since Wednesday morning, according to the center.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power stations on the Pacific coast in Japan&#8217;s Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures on Friday shut down operations automatically after a magnitude-8.9 earthquake hit off the country&#8217;s north-east coast, according to Kyodo News agency.<\/p>\n[media id=460 width=610 height=340]\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 19)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami Hits Japan after Massive Quake. A powerful tsunami triggered by the largest earthquake in Japan&#8217;s recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118,14],"tags":[4306,14856,2069,14854,14855,13894,14850,14852,14853,14851],"class_list":["post-11270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-earthquake","tag-earthquake-japan","tag-japan","tag-kyodo","tag-powerful-tsunami-japan","tag-tsunami","tag-tsunami-hits-japan","tag-tsunami-hits-japan-video","tag-tsunami-in-japan","tag-tsunami-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}