{"id":768506,"date":"2022-01-27T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/6-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-tonga-less-than-2-weeks-after-volcanic-eruption\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:09:50","slug":"6-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-tonga-less-than-2-weeks-after-volcanic-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/6-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-tonga-less-than-2-weeks-after-volcanic-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes near Tonga less than 2 weeks after volcanic eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 27 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Less than two weeks after an underwater volcano explosion cut off communications on the island of Tonga, a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Pacific island on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The quake hit about 135 miles northwest of Pangai, Tonga, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, at a depth of 9 miles.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries or damage to any of the populated islands that make up the Tonga region.<\/p>\n<p>The seismic activity came 12 days after the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha&#8217;apai volcano erupted and produced a tsunami that caused widespread damage in Tonga and minor effects as far away as the U.S. West Coast.<\/p>\n<div readonly=\"readonly\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1643296190_813_ph1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Workers unload humanitarian assistance at Fua&#8217;amotu International Airport in Tonga on January 20, five days after the eruption of an underwater volcano. Photo via Australian Defence Force\/UPI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Japan, have since given aid to Tonga &#8212; such as clean drinking water. Three deaths have been blamed on the eruption and the tsunami that hit the islands.<\/p>\n<p>Repairs to underwater fiber optic cables that were severed during the eruption may not be fixed until next month, officials have said, leaving much of the islands without a way of communicating with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 27 (UPI) &#8212; Less than two weeks after an underwater volcano explosion cut off communications on the island of Tonga, a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Pacific island on Thursday. The quake hit about 135 miles northwest of Pangai, Tonga, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, at a depth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}