{"id":5901,"date":"2023-10-15T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2023-10-15T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:04:38","slug":"strong-earthquake-hits-western-afghanistan-fourth-quake-in-past-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/strong-earthquake-hits-western-afghanistan-fourth-quake-in-past-10-days\/5901\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake hits western Afghanistan; Fourth quake in past 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours on Sunday, a powerful earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck western Afghanistan, the U.S. Geological survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake, which was centered about 30 kilometers (18 miles) north north-west of Herat, followed a series of powerful tremors that killed more than a thousand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis earthquake was preceded by three other M 6.3 earthquakes in the previous days,\u201d USGS said in a statement. Earlier on October 11, M6.3 occurred and on October 7th, two earthquakes were felt with 30 minutes apart.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake experienced on Sunday was registered at a depth of 6.3 kilometers along the same fault planes on which the four most recent quakes struck, added USGS\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours on Sunday, a powerful earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck western Afghanistan, the U.S. Geological survey said\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[1574],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-afghanistan-earthquake"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}