{"id":12516,"date":"2018-12-01T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2018-12-01T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:26:16","slug":"deep-6-3-magnitude-quake-strikes-eastern-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12516","title":{"rendered":"Deep 6.3-magnitude quake strikes eastern Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake with a 6.3 magnitude struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, causing some damage to buildings and sending people running from their homes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/image\/10987826\/16x9\/991\/557\/b771fe9a5ca63a10e2781b23102df72a\/JO\/indonesia-earthquake.png\" alt=\"Image result for Deep 6.3-magnitude quake strikes eastern Indonesia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The quake struck at a depth of 32.4 kilometres (20 miles) and was centred 32km west of Hila on the island of Ambon, the US Geological Survey reported.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of injuries and no tsunami warning was issued. The USGS website assessed the likelihood of deaths or major damage as low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was damage and it is still being monitored,\u201d Mochammad Riyadi, an official at Indonesia\u2019s meteorology and geophysics agency, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake was one of five tremors that rattled Maluku province within 30 minutes, according to the agency. The others were all under magnitude 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople panicked and scattered out of houses and buildings,\u201d said national disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia sits on the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire\u201d where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.<\/p>\n<p>An earthquake struck Indonesia\u2019s western province of Aceh last December, killing more than 100 people, injuring many more and leaving tens of thousands homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake with a 6.3&#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-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","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=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12517,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/12517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}