{"id":300128,"date":"2019-05-24T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=300128"},"modified":"2019-05-24T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:00:12","slug":"officials-at-hawaii-tsunami-center-say-fake-alert-circulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/officials-at-hawaii-tsunami-center-say-fake-alert-circulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials at Hawaii tsunami center say fake alert circulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HONOLULU <\/strong>(AP)\u2014Officials at a tsunami monitoring center in Hawaii say a fake threat was circulated about an earthquake in Japan and subsequent tidal wave.<\/p>\n<p>News outlets reported Tuesday that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center on Oahu said there is no tsunami threat in the Pacific after a \u201cfabricated message was circulated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the bogus message went out after 4 p.m. on a global telecommunications system used by the World Meteorological Organization based in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The message said a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred in Japan near Nagasaki, although the coordinates given were not accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say clues the message was bogus included misspellings the inclusion of only a few parts of what would normally be sent.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the National Weather Service will investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU (AP)\u2014Officials at a tsunami monitoring center in Hawaii say a fake threat was circulated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300128","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=300128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}