{"id":17051,"date":"2018-10-02T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2018-10-02T05:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T05:23:53","slug":"indonesia-accused-of-mishandling-tsunami-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17051","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia accused of mishandling tsunami warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The Indonesian government has defended itself against accusations it issued inadequate safety warnings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/30\/asia\/indonesia-earthquake\/index.html\">as a powerful earthquake<\/a> triggered a tsunami that killed at least 844 people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Sulawesi island on Friday causing three-meter-high (10 foot) waves to surge over parts of its northwestern shore, with groups of people caught on the coastline, apparently unaware of the danger.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Experts underscored the difficulties of predicting tsunamis and raising safety alerts across Indonesia&#8217;s vast archipelago of over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/indonesias-trying-figure-out-how-many-islands-it-contains-180963606\/\" target=\"_blank\">17,000 islands<\/a> and 261 million people, but others pointed to a lack of government coordination and funding.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The Indonesian government has defended itself against accusations it issued inadequate safety warnings as a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed at least 844 people.The 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Sulawesi island on Friday causing three-meter-high (10 foot) waves to surge over parts of its northwestern shore, with groups of people caught on the coastline,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17051","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\/17051","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=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}