{"id":1136,"date":"2021-02-07T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2021-02-08T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:00:44","slug":"strong-earthquake-hits-mindanao-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/02\/07\/strong-earthquake-hits-mindanao-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake hits Mindanao in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA): A strong earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Mindanao, in the Philippines, at about noon today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Malaysian Meteorological&nbsp; Department (MetMalaysia), the quake occurred at 12.22 pm, with its epicentre at 16 kilometre west of Digos City, in the Philippines, and depth of 24 kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it posed no tsunami threat to Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, MindaNews (Philippines) reported that the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs),in its Earthquake Information Number 1 released at 12:28 p.m., placed the magnitude of the noontime quake at 6.3 with epicenter of the noontime quake at six kilometers south east of Magsaysay, with an estimated depth of 15 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in its Earthquake Information Number 2 released at 1:09 p.m, Phivolcs said the magnitude was 6.1 with epicenter at five kilometers southwest of Magsaysay and the same depth at 15 kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA): A strong earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Mindanao, in the Philippines, at about noon today. According to the Malaysian Meteorological&nbsp; Department (MetMalaysia), the quake occurred at 12.22 pm, with its epicentre at 16 kilometre west of Digos City, in the Philippines, and depth of 24 kilometres. However, it posed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}