{"id":297513,"date":"2019-04-15T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=297513"},"modified":"2019-04-15T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:00:42","slug":"magnitude-5-3-earthquake-hits-hawaii-no-risk-of-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/magnitude-5-3-earthquake-hits-hawaii-no-risk-of-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits Hawaii; no risk of tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii <\/strong>(AP)\u2014A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake hit about 5pm and had an epicenter about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Kailua-Kona, a city of nearly 12,000 people on the island\u2019s west coast, the agency said. The earthquake had a depth of about 10 miles (16 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>There is no danger of a tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the island may have experienced strong shaking, the center said. The U.S. Geological Survey says it has received 894 responses from people saying they had felt the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii Electric Light tweeted that about 3,300 customers were without power in the community of Waikoloa, Hawaii News Now reported . Crews were working to restore power.<\/p>\n<p>Civil Defense officials told Hawaii News Now that the earthquake caused a large boulder to come down on Highway 19-Queen Kaahumanu at the Hapuna Junction.<\/p>\n<p>The news agency also reports that Captain Cook resident Elizabeth Cano said on Facebook that her whole house shook in the quake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still cleaning up broken glass,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP)\u2014A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit the west side of the Big Island of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297513","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}