{"id":23688,"date":"2024-01-01T22:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=23688"},"modified":"2024-01-01T22:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T03:33:39","slug":"death-toll-in-powerful-japan-quake-rises-to-8-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/death-toll-in-powerful-japan-quake-rises-to-8-government\/23688\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in powerful Japan quake rises to 8: Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people were confirmed dead in Ishikawa prefecture after a massive earthquake hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, the media reported on Tuesday, citing local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the rescue of those impacted by the earthquakes a battle against time, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that the government has already dispatched several self-defence forces to the impacted areas and will continue to assist.<\/p>\n<p>A series of strong earthquakes, with major ones of up to a preliminary 7.6 magnitude, hit on Monday at a shallow depth on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency has officially named it the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake. Since Monday, Japan has been hit by 155 quakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people were confirmed dead in Ishikawa prefecture after a massive earthquake hit the area in central Japan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":23690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[7099,920,1459,7096,149,3360,7097,5480,7098],"class_list":["post-23688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2024-noto-peninsula-earthquake","tag-assistance","tag-earthquake","tag-ishikawa-prefecture","tag-japan","tag-japanese-prime-minister-fumio-kishida","tag-noto","tag-rescue-efforts","tag-self-defence-forces"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}