{"id":12271,"date":"2018-11-26T01:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12271"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:04:52","slug":"magnitude-6-1-earthquake-rattles-taiwans-penghu-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12271","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattles Taiwan&#8217;s Penghu County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Taiwan at 7:57 a.m. Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, and was felt hundreds of kilometers away in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake&#8217;s epicenter was located at sea about 101.9 kilometers west of Penghu County Hall, at a depth of 20.5 km, the bureau&#8217;s Seismology Center said.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake&#8217;s highest intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Penghu, Kinmen, Tainan, Yunlin, Chiayi and Changhua, where it measured 3 on Taiwan&#8217;s 7-tiered intensity scale.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake also measured an intensity of 2 in Nantou, Kaohsiung and Taichung, bureau data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12274,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}