{"id":71877,"date":"2013-02-06T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/deadly-tsunami-hits-solomon-islands-asia-pacific-video.php"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:49:50","slug":"deadly-tsunami-hits-solomon-islands-asia-pacific-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/deadly-tsunami-hits-solomon-islands-asia-pacific-video.php","title":{"rendered":"Deadly tsunami hits Solomon Islands &#8211; Asia-Pacific &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>Deadly tsunami hits Solomon Islands - Asia-Pacific<br \/><span>A powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake has set off a tsunami that killed at least five people in a remote part of the Solomon Islands, triggering evacuations across the South Pacific as island nations issued tsunami alerts. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre cancelled its regional alert for Pacific-island nations at 03:50 GMT on Wednesday, about two and a half hours after the powerful quake struck at 01:12 GMT near the Santa Cruz islands in the Solomons. Australian and US monitors said a tsunami wave measuring 91 centimetres washed into the town of Lata, on the main Santa Cruz island of Ndende. The wave also reached parts of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, a 40 centimetre tsunami hit as far away as Japan #39;s Hachijo Island, about 290km south of Tokyo. The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the wave appeared to have travelled 500 metres inland, inundating Lata #39;s airstrip as well as surrounding villages, flattening many traditional houses. \"We can report five dead and three injured. One of the dead was a male child, three were elderly women and one an elderly man,\" Chris Rogers, a nurse at Lata Hospital, told the AFP news agency.  #39;Waves crashing #39; Solomons Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo #39;s office said four villages on the Santa Cruz Islands had been hit by the tsunami. \"Latest reports suggest that between 60 to 70 homes have been damaged by waves crashing into at least four villages on Santa Cruz Islands\" - George Herming, spokesperson \"Latest ...<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>By: <\/span>ssnipersam<span style=\"color: #666666; font-size: 11px;\"<br \/><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=viw-8YhBFFM\" title=\"Deadly tsunami hits Solomon Islands - Asia-Pacific - Video\">Deadly tsunami hits Solomon Islands - Asia-Pacific - Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Deadly tsunami hits Solomon Islands - Asia-Pacific A powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake has set off a tsunami that killed at least five people in a remote part of the Solomon Islands, triggering evacuations across the South Pacific as island nations issued tsunami alerts.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/deadly-tsunami-hits-solomon-islands-asia-pacific-video.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}