{"id":33744,"date":"2021-07-05T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/05\/explosion-rocks-caspian-sea-near-azerbaijan-gas-field"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T02:01:17","slug":"explosion-rocks-caspian-sea-near-azerbaijan-gas-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33744","title":{"rendered":"Explosion rocks Caspian Sea near Azerbaijan gas field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cause of blast was an igniting \u2018mud volcano\u2019, says state oil company<\/p>\n<p>A strong explosion has shaken the Caspian Sea area where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/azerbaijan\">Azerbaijan<\/a> has extensive offshore oil and gas fields.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blast, which caused a column of fire to rise into the sky late on Sunday, was not immediately determined, but state oil company Socar said preliminary information indicated it was a mud volcano. Socar said none of its platforms were damaged in the explosion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/05\/explosion-rocks-caspian-sea-near-azerbaijan-gas-field\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause of blast was an igniting \u2018mud volcano\u2019, says state oil companyA strong explosion has shaken the Caspian Sea area where Azerbaijan has extensive offshore oil and gas fields.The cause of the blast, which caused a column of fire to rise into the sky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1551,65,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-environment","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions\/33752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}