{"id":76904,"date":"2026-04-02T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/02\/magnitude-78-earthquake-strikes-in-indonesia-sparking-tsunami-alert"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:23:28","slug":"magnitude-7-4-earthquake-strikes-in-indonesia-sparking-tsunami-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76904","title":{"rendered":"One killed and buildings damaged as magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quake with epicentre west-north-west of Ternate island shakes cities and prompts regional tsunami warning<\/p>\n<p>One person has been killed after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia\u2019s Ternate island, damaging buildings and triggering small tsunami waves.<\/p>\n<p>The quake, which had a depth of 35km, occurred on Thursday at 6.48am local time, according to the United States Geological Survey. Its epicentre was 127km (79 miles) west-north-west of Ternate, an island in Indonesia\u2019s North Maluku province.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/02\/magnitude-78-earthquake-strikes-in-indonesia-sparking-tsunami-alert\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quake with epicentre west-north-west of Ternate island shakes cities and prompts regional tsunami warningOne person has been killed after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia\u2019s Ternate island, damaging buildings and triggering small tsunami wave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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":[41,263,156,1189,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-indonesia","category-tsunamis","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\/76904","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76906,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76904\/revisions\/76906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}