{"id":1598,"date":"2011-11-30T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T10:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2011-11-30T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T10:43:54","slug":"quake-hits-philippines-luzon-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Quake hits Philippines&#8217; Luzon island"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\nNovember 30, 2011<\/ul>\n<p><strong>. An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has hit off the Philippines&#8217; main island of Luzon, according to Philippine seismologists. <\/p>\n<p>The quake occurred at 8:26 am local time Wednesday, the seismologists said. <\/p>\n<p>The undersea quake&#8217;s epicenter was off the western coast of the northern province of Zambales, about 230 kilometers (142 miles) northwest of the capital, Manila, AFP reported. <\/p>\n<p>No casualties have been reported and no tsunami warning has yet been issued by local authorities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This won&#8217;t cause much damage because this is far from land,&#8221; said Renato Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. <\/p>\n<p>The institute added, however, that aftershocks are expected. <\/p>\n<p>The Philippines lies in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire &#8212; an area where continental plates collide, causing frequent quakes and volcanic activities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2011 . An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has hit off the Philippines&#8217; main island of Luzon, according to Philippine seismologists. The quake occurred at 8:26 am local time Wednesday, the seismologists said. The undersea quake&#8217;s epicenter was off the western coast of the northern province of Zambales, about 230 kilometers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}