{"id":30086,"date":"2019-01-22T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30086"},"modified":"2019-01-22T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T05:22:23","slug":"strong-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30086","title":{"rendered":"Strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"82.4042392127\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck south of the city of Raba on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/indonesia.html\">Indonesia<\/a>&#8216;s central island of Sumbawa, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The tremor on Tuesday hit at a depth of 31km, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">It was followed by a weaker quake in the same area with an initial reading of 5.2 magnitude, according to Indonesia&#8217;s disaster agency.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster-prone Indonesia, which\u00a0<span>sits on the geologically active so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide,\u00a0<\/span>suffered its deadliest year in more than a decade in 2018 as a series of earthquakes and tsunamis killed thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p><span>The vast Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 17,000 islands\u00a0<\/span>is still reeling from a devastating tsunami at the end of December triggered by an erupting volcano in the middle of the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands that killed more than 400 people.<\/p>\n<p>The tsunami was Indonesia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/timeline-indonesia-battered-devastating-quakes-tsunamis-181225022158260.html\">third major natural disaster in six months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It followed a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/indonesia-magnitude-63-earthquake-rocks-lombok-island-180819051619957.html\">powerful earthquakes<\/a> on the island of Lombok in July and August and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/indonesia-earthquake-palu-disaster-grief-religion-181005055507772.html\">quake-tsunami<\/a> in September that killed around 2,200 people in Palu on Sulawesi island, with thousands more missing and presumed dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck south of the city of Raba on Indonesia&#8217;s central island of Sumbawa, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. The tremor on Tuesday hit at a depth of 31km, according to the United States Geological Survey. It was followed by a weaker&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086","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=30086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}