{"id":475323,"date":"2025-07-16T18:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/7-2-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-the-coast-of-alaska-and-generates-tsunami-alert\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:46:25","slug":"7-2-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-the-coast-of-alaska-and-generates-tsunami-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/7-2-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-the-coast-of-alaska-and-generates-tsunami-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"7.2 magnitude earthquake shakes the coast of Alaska and generates tsunami alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New York.-<\/strong> The <strong>National Weather Service (NWS) of the United States<\/strong> issued a tsunami alert on the coast of <strong>Alaska, in the United States<\/strong>, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n<strong>&#8220;A TSUNAMI WARNING is issued for parts of Alaska after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Sand Point, Alaska, at 12:38 p.m. (Alaska time) on July 16,&#8221;<\/strong> reported the NWS on its X profile.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/un-terremoto-de-magnitud-58-golpea-a-taiwan\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"461263\">A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits eastern Taiwan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to NWS data, the earthquake originated about 87 kilometers south of the city of Sand Point, the most populated on Popof Island &#8211; off the coast of the Alaskan peninsula &#8211; around 4:37 PM Eastern Time (8:37 PM GMT).\n\nIn addition to Sand Point, other Alaskan cities such as Cold Bay or Kodiak are also threatened by the possibility of a tsunami.\n\nThe National Weather Service urged residents of the area to evacuate to higher ground or move to a higher floor of a building. For now, no further information is available.\n\nMichigan Technological University (MIT) indicates that an earthquake is capable of causing &#8220;severe damage&#8221; if it has a magnitude between 7 and 7.9.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York.- The National Weather Service (NWS) of the United States issued a tsunami alert on the coast of Alaska, in the United States, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the state. &#8220;A TSUNAMI WARNING is issued for parts of Alaska after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Sand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40391],"class_list":{"0":"post-475323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-earthquake"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/5d5fc64d-2945-4e03-997f-c48561fae6d4_source-aspect-ratio_1600w_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZEv","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/5d5fc64d-2945-4e03-997f-c48561fae6d4_source-aspect-ratio_1600w_0.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}