{"id":19232,"date":"2019-09-26T20:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T03:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19232"},"modified":"2019-09-26T20:17:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T03:17:03","slug":"magnitude-6-5-earthquake-kills-at-least-20-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19232","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.5 earthquake kills at least 20 in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A strong earthquake has destroyed buildings and triggered landslides in the Maluku Islands in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/indonesia.html\"><strong>Indonesia<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s east on Thursday morning, leaving at least 20 people dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The total number of people who died in the earthquake is 20,&#8221; Agus Wibowo, spokesman for the national disaster agency, said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;At least 100 people were injured and more than 2,000 evacuated,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude 6.5 quake hit the islands at approximately 8:45am (00:45 GMT) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Terrified people ran into the streets as buildings collapsed around them in Ambon, a city of about 400,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were seen helping injured people in blood-stained clothes, while images showed wrecked homes with collapsed walls and rubble strewn on the ground, the AFP news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impact was felt across Ambon city and surrounding areas,&#8221; said Rahmat Triyono, head of the earthquake and tsunami division at Indonesia&#8217;s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency (BMKG).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people were woken up by the shaking&#8230; it felt like a truck was passing by.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The area was hit by at least two dozen aftershocks, including one that measured 5.6 magnitude, Triyono said.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Simaela, a local disaster official, told the Associated Press that parts of a building at a university collapsed, while a\u00a0main hospital in the city had also been damaged. Patients were evacuated to outdoor tents in the hospital&#8217;s yard, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake has destroyed buildings&#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-19232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232","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=19232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19233,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}