{"id":16646,"date":"2018-09-28T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2018-09-28T14:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:23:38","slug":"indonesia-rocked-by-magnitude-7-5-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16646","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia rocked by magnitude 7.5 quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"101\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Indonesia has been struck by a strong magnitude <span>7.5\u00a0<\/span>earthquake, the US Geological Survey said, triggering the national disaster agency to issue a tsunami warning that was later lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The quake hit central Sulawesi island at a shallow depth of about 10km on Sunday, just hours after a smaller quake killed at least one person in the same part of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Indonesia&#8217;s disaster agency issued a tsunami warning for the west coast of Sulawesi and east coast of Indonesia&#8217;s part of Borneo island, but later lifted the alert.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed people running onto the streets. A woman and children wailed in a video distributed by the agency, which also released a photo showing a damaged department store.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/9\/28\/c39e8753250c43eda7cb4bbd663e554c_18.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/9\/28\/c39e8753250c43eda7cb4bbd663e554c_18.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td class=\"caption\">\n<span>The disaster agency\u00a0<span>released a photo showing a heavily damaged department store<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[BNPB\/AFP]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Officials asked people to remain on the alert as a number of moderate aftershocks hit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We advise people to remain in safe areas and stay away from damaged buildings,&#8221; Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesperson for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said in a televised interview.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the national agency in Jakarta was having difficulties reaching authorities in the affected area.<\/p>\n<p>Nugroho said there was &#8220;much damage&#8221; in the Donggala area &#8211; home to about 300,000 people &#8211; where the first quake hit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2012\/8\/18\/201281811141902734_20.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2012\/8\/18\/201281811141902734_20.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A series of earthquakes in July and August killed nearly 500 people on the holiday island of Lombok, hundreds of kilometres southwest of Sulawesi.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is regularly hit by earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, an earthquake off the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean, killing 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia has been struck by a strong magnitude 7.5\u00a0earthquake, the US Geological Survey said, triggering the national disaster agency to issue a tsunami warning that was later lifted. 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