{"id":8440,"date":"2015-10-26T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T11:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/26\/earthquake-strikes-indian-subcontinent\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T11:17:41","slug":"earthquake-strikes-indian-subcontinent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/26\/earthquake-strikes-indian-subcontinent\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Strikes Indian Subcontinent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>7.5 magnitude earthquake felt in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/image\/ArticleImages\/pakistan-india-earthquake-1015-467x184.jpg\" width=\"447\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors rippling through Pakistan and northern India.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The 7.5 magnitude earthquake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, according to reports by the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Local news channels in Pakistan showed people evacuating office buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>No official word has been released on casualties however one report has said that four individuals have been killed in the northwest region of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Phone lines in Pakistan were down after the tremor struck, whilst in the Indian capital city of Delhi, schools and offices were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted that he had ordered an urgent assessment of any damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe stand ready for assistance where required, including Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Professor of planetary geosciences at the UK\u2019s Open University, David Rothery said the quake could potentially cause a lot of damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately it occurred at a depth of more than 200km and so the shaking of the ground surface was less than it would have been for a shallower earthquake of the same magnitude,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7.5 magnitude earthquake felt in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India &#13; &#13; A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors rippling through Pakistan and northern India. &#13; &#13; The 7.5 magnitude earthquake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, according to reports by the US Geological Survey. &#13; &#13; Local news channels in Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}