{"id":16816,"date":"2018-09-30T03:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2018-09-30T03:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T03:24:13","slug":"why-indonesia-has-so-many-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16816","title":{"rendered":"Why Indonesia has so many earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>With Indonesia, the question is not whether an earthquake will occur but when.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Southeast Asian archipelago nation is reeling after yet another powerful earthquake struck Friday, followed by a tsunami, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/29\/asia\/indonesia-earthquake\/index.html\">leaving nearly 400 people dead<\/a> and hundreds injured. The walls of water engulfed towns, swept away buildings and tossed cars like toys. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it&#8217;s on the <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/facts\/rof.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ring of Fire<\/a>, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. The area shaped like a shoe spans 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) and is where a majority of the world&#8217;s earthquakes occur. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)With Indonesia, the question is not whether an earthquake will occur but when. The Southeast Asian archipelago nation is reeling after yet another powerful earthquake struck Friday, followed by a tsunami, leaving nearly 400 people dead and hundreds injured. The walls of water engulfed towns, swept away buildings and tossed cars like toys. Indonesia is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}