{"id":77082,"date":"2026-04-20T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/20\/japan-tsunami-earthquake-sanriku-latest-news-updates"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:16:49","slug":"japan-tsunami-alert-issued-following-powerful-earthquake-off-northern-coast-follow-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77082","title":{"rendered":"Japan tsunami alerts downgraded following powerful earthquake off northern coast \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in affected areas are still urged to evacuate after quake registering 7.7 magnitude <\/p>\n<p><strong>Australian officials in Japan are urgently following up on the tsunami warning off the northeastern coast of the island of Honshu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Australian government said:<\/p>\n<p>We stand ready to provide consular assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Australians in need of emergency consular assistance should contact the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade\u2019s 24-hour Consular Emergency Centre on 1300 555 135, or +61 2 6261 3305 (if calling from overseas).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/20\/japan-tsunami-earthquake-sanriku-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in affected areas are still urged to evacuate after quake registering 7.7 magnitude Australian officials in Japan are urgently following up on the tsunami warning off the northeastern coast of the island of Honshu.The Australian government said:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"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":[41,263,88,1189,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-japan","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\/77082","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77082\/revisions\/77086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}