{"id":23042,"date":"2018-11-24T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2018-11-24T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T07:22:55","slug":"new-zealand-islands-moving-closer-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23042","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand islands moving closer together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>New Zealand&#8217;s North and South Islands are moving closer together after a series of earthquakes in 2016 that lifted the sea floor, the country&#8217;s geology body has said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 7.8-magnitude quake and its aftershocks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/18\/asia\/nz-earthquake-pics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">lifted the seabed six-and-a-half feet <\/a>when they hit near Kaik\u014dura on the South Island, exposing seaweed-covered rocks and marine life.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">And the islands have continued to creep closer to each other since the quake, Sigr\u00fan Hreinsd\u00f3ttir of the GNS Science body told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/science\/108718708\/south-and-north-islands-getting-closer\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand news website Stuff<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)New Zealand&#8217;s North and South Islands are moving closer together after a series of earthquakes in 2016 that lifted the sea floor, the country&#8217;s geology body has said. The 7.8-magnitude quake and its aftershocks lifted the seabed six-and-a-half feet when they hit near Kaik\u014dura on the South Island, exposing seaweed-covered rocks and marine life.And the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}