{"id":3314,"date":"2020-08-26T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odpem.org.jm\/?post_type=odpem_in_the_media&#038;p=3314"},"modified":"2020-08-28T03:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T03:23:58","slug":"earthquake-felt-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"odpem_in_the_media","link":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/?odpem_in_the_media=earthquake-felt-in-jamaica","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Felt in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Press Release #1<br>Issued on: Wednesday August 26, 2020 sent at 4:30 pm<br>Earthquake Felt in Jamaica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) wish to advise the public of an earthquake that was felt this morning August 26, 2020 at 7:28 am. The Earthquake Unit reported a moderate earthquake and the epicenter was 8 kilometers east of Mile Gully, Manchester with magnitude of 4.8 and a focal depth of 24 kilometers. There were no reports of injury or structural damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management is reminding the public these are the procedures that should be followed during an earthquake:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dropdown; take cover under a desk or table and hold on.<\/li><li>Stay indoors until the shaking stops and you&#8217;re sure it&#8217;s safe to exit.<\/li><li>Stay away from bookcases or furniture that can fall on you.<\/li><li>Stay away from windows. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br>If you in a high-rise building, expect the fire alarms and sprinklers to go off during a quake.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cDisaster do happen be prepared\u201d<br>-endContact- Joyce Reynolds Robinson, Information Officer &#8211; ODPEM; jrobinson@odpem.org.jm; Tel: 1(876)552-4861<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3315,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_angie_page":false},"odpem_news":[],"class_list":["post-3314","odpem_in_the_media","type-odpem_in_the_media","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/odpem_in_the_media\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/odpem_in_the_media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/odpem_in_the_media"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"odpem_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odpem.gov.jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fodpem_news&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}