{"id":20976,"date":"2018-02-05T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=20976"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:21:50","slug":"taiwan-hit-by-6-4-magnitude-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/taiwan-hit-by-6-4-magnitude-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan hit by 6.4-magnitude quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted waters near Hualien County in northeast Taiwan at 21:56 Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center<\/p>\n<p>(CENC).<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter was monitored at 24.2 degrees north latitude and 121.72 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km, the center said in a renewed statement.<\/p>\n<p>A 5.6-magnitude quake had previously been reported by the center.<\/p>\n<p>A 5.5-magnitude aftershock was reported at 22:13 in the same region, the center said in another statement. The center earlier said that a 4.7-magnitude<\/p>\n<p>earthquake was monitored at 21:12 in the same area. Taiwan&#8217;s meteorological authority confirmed that a series of earthquakes hit Hualien, with the strongest<\/p>\n<p>measured at 5.8.<\/p>\n<p>The first quake took place at 21:12 and was followed by at least six aftershocks. Local residents in Hualien said they had clearly felt the quakes at home, while<\/p>\n<p>local media sources reported that the quakes affected four trains.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties have been reported. The tremors were also felt in parts of east China&#8217;s Fujian Province.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted waters near Hualien County in northeast Taiwan at 21:56 Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 24.2 degrees north latitude and 121.72 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km, the center said in a renewed statement. A 5.6-magnitude quake had previously been [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20978,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20976\/revisions\/20978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}