{"id":303382,"date":"2018-09-28T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303382"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:43:05","slug":"two-huge-quakes-hit-indonesia-first-tremor-of-magnitude-6-1-killed-one-injured-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/two-huge-quakes-hit-indonesia-first-tremor-of-magnitude-6-1-killed-one-injured-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Two huge quakes hit Indonesia, first tremor of magnitude 6.1 killed one, injured 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300922 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/earthquake-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/earthquake-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/earthquake-622x420.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/earthquake.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on September 28, prompting a Tsunami alert hours after an earthquake with magnitude 6.1 damage many houses in the same area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least one person was killed and 10 others were injured during the first tremor, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The (second) quake was felt very strongly, we expect more damage and more victims,&#8221; Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.5 quake was centered at a depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers) about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of the town of Donggala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indonesia&#8217;s meteorology agency initially issued an early tsunami warning for people in Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi provinces, but warning was lifted within an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nugroho reportedly said, &#8220;We advise people to remain in safe areas, stay away from damaged buildings.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The evacuation is still being carried out,&#8221; Nugroho added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is vulnerable to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on September 28, prompting a Tsunami alert hours after an earthquake with magnitude 6.1 damage many houses in the same area. At least one person was killed and 10 others were injured during the first tremor, authorities said. &#8220;The (second) quake was felt very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[430,5271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303383,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303382\/revisions\/303383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}