{"id":382712,"date":"2023-01-04T06:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=382712"},"modified":"2023-01-04T06:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:06:01","slug":"community-briefs-january-4-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-january-4-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; January 4, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NMC offices closed on Jan. 5 and 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northern Marianas College employees will be participating in professional development activities throughout this week. The institution will be closed on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 5 and 6, 2023, to maximize employee participation.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members will also be participating in professional development activities earlier in the week on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023; however, administrative offices of the institution, including the Office of Admissions and Records and the Financial Aid Office, will remain open on this day.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals who are seeking assistance in applying for NMC\u2019s spring 2023 semester can email oar@marianas.edu or visit www.marianas.edu\/spring2023 for more information.<em> (NMC)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.3-magnitude quake in Pagan region<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 10:55am on Jan. 3, 2023, a report of a 4.3-magnitude earthquake occurred at 18.948\u00b0N 145.079\u00b0E in the Pagan region of the Northern Mariana Islands. Currently, there are no tsunami warnings or advisories issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. For more information, contact the CNMI EOC State Warning Point at (670)-237-8000. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NMC offices closed on Jan. 5 and 6 Northern Marianas College employees will be participating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":361320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-382712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-nmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382712","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}