{"id":272585,"date":"2018-03-26T06:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=272585"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:06:32","slug":"2-earthquakes-near-pagan-agrihan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2-earthquakes-near-pagan-agrihan\/","title":{"rendered":"2 earthquakes near Pagan, Agrihan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 4.5-magnitude earthquake occurred near Pagan last Wednesday, while a 4.8-magnitude temblor happened near Agrihan last Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Ther were no reports of injuries or damage to property in both cases. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also did not issue tsunami warnings or advisories.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CNMI Emergency Operations Center Warning Point, Wednesday\u2019s earthquake occurred 53 miles east of Pagan at 9:23pm.<\/p>\n<p>EOC said Saturday\u2019s earthquake happened 41 miles north northwest of Agrihan at 1:01am.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, three earthquakes occurred near Farallon de Pajaros and Pagan. <\/p>\n<p>Five earthquakes recently occurred near Rota and Saipan in a week.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Aaron G. Wech told Saipan Tribune earlier that the series of earthquakes are normal and expected in tectonic settings like the CNMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 4.5-magnitude earthquake occurred near Pagan last Wednesday, while a 4.8-magnitude temblor happened near Agrihan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,764,2273,38],"class_list":["post-272585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-eoc","tag-geological-survey","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}