{"id":41105,"date":"2021-12-14T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=41105"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:32:55","slug":"7-3-undersea-quake-in-indonesia-triggers-tsunami-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/12\/14\/7-3-undersea-quake-in-indonesia-triggers-tsunami-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"7.3 undersea quake in Indonesia triggers, tsunami warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake struck off Indonesia&#8217;s Flores Island on Tuesday, the Associated Press (AP) quoted the country&#8217;s meteorological agency as warning that tsunami waves are possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the US Geological Survey, the quake hit at a depth of 18.5 kilometers (11.5 miles) under the sea, and was located 112 kilometers (74 miles) north of the town of Maumere, the second-largest on the island in East Nusa Tenggara province with a population of 85,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 270 million people, is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221;,\u200c an arc of volcanoes and fault lines that arcs the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last major earthquake was in January, a magnitude 6.2 that killed at least 105 people and injured nearly 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake struck off Indonesia&#8217;s Flores Island on Tuesday, the Associated Press (AP) quoted the country&#8217;s meteorological agency as warning that tsunami waves are possible. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake hit at a depth of 18.5 kilometers (11.5 miles) under the sea, and was located 112 kilometers (74 miles) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41107,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105\/revisions\/41107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}