{"id":59213,"date":"2023-10-15T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/15\/earthquake-strikes-afghanistan-region-still-reeling-from-week-of-devastation"},"modified":"2023-10-15T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:22:26","slug":"earthquake-strikes-afghanistan-region-still-reeling-from-week-of-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59213","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake strikes Afghanistan region still reeling from week of devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 6.3-magnitude quake strikes outside Herat in western area where thousands were killed last week<\/p>\n<p>A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region.<\/p>\n<p>The US Geological Survey said the latest quake\u2019s epicentre was about 21 miles (34km) outside Herat, the provincial capital, and the focus was 5 miles below the surface.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/15\/earthquake-strikes-afghanistan-region-still-reeling-from-week-of-devastation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 6.3-magnitude quake strikes outside Herat in western area where thousands were killed last weekA powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[46,263,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/59213","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59214,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59213\/revisions\/59214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}