{"id":36890,"date":"2012-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/newss\/strong-quake-strikes-costa-rica"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:00:00","slug":"strong-quake-strikes-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/strong-quake-strikes-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong quake strikes Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake has struck Costa Rica but there is no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 6:45pm on Tuesday (1145 Wednessday AEDT), is located over land, 140km west of the capital San Jose, but only 10km from the town of Hojancha, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a bulletin saying &#8220;no destructive widespread tsunami threat exists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the centre warned that quakes of that magnitude &#8220;can generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts&#8221; located within 100km of the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p>In September, a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Costa Rica&#8217;s Pacific coast, briefly knocking out power lines, damaging rooftops and causing panic, but no reported casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":27074,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[1324,2743],"region":[1935],"source":[3120],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/36890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/36890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}