{"id":73194,"date":"2025-07-31T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/why-did-wednesday-earthquake-tsunami-produce-so-little-damage"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:21:46","slug":"why-did-wednesdays-earthquake-and-tsunami-produce-so-little-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73194","title":{"rendered":"Why did Wednesday\u2019s earthquake and tsunami produce so little damage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered a tsunami \u2013 and a race against time<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/strongest-earthquakes-ever-recorded\">most powerful earthquakes ever recorded<\/a> hit a sparsely populated region in far-east Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It triggered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/30\/tsunami-alert-pacific-islands-japan-russia-magnitude-8-earthquake-follow-live-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with%3Ablock-68899ca48f087e999b410189&amp;%7B%7Burl_parameters_unstripped%7D%7D\">a tsunami<\/a> that started crossing the ocean at hundreds of miles an hour. What followed was a race against time: early warning systems went into alert mode as waves fanned out towards the coastlines of Japan, Hawaii and the US west coast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/why-did-wednesday-earthquake-tsunami-produce-so-little-damage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered a tsunami \u2013 and a race against timeOn Wednesday, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded hit a sparsely populated region in far-east Russia.It triggered a tsunami that started cros&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,263,1456,88,419,1189,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-hawaii","category-japan","category-russia","category-tsunamis","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73194\/revisions\/73208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}