{"id":63089,"date":"2024-04-05T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/05\/taiwan-earthquake-hualien-death-toll-injuries-impact"},"modified":"2024-04-05T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:29:13","slug":"taiwan-earthquake-shock-and-grief-take-hold-in-hualien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63089","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan earthquake: shock and grief take hold in Hualien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of tourist city near epicentre of 7.2-magnitude Taiwan earthquake face destruction and despair<\/p>\n<p>Lying in his bed, Liao Xiu Bo wondered if he was about to die. As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/04\/taiwan-earthquake-2024-news-landslides-quake-aftershocks-survivors-search\">powerful earthquake<\/a> rocked the ground beneath him, he tried to escape his house. \u201cAm I going to be crushed?\u201d he asked himself, before gathering the courage to run down the stairs, which swayed beneath his feet.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, he could see that the wall surrounding his house had collapsed, its bricks littered across the road.<strong> <\/strong>\u201cThat\u2019s when I realised how extreme the earthquake was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/05\/taiwan-earthquake-hualien-death-toll-injuries-impact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of tourist city near epicentre of 7.2-magnitude Taiwan earthquake face destruction and despairLying in his bed, Liao Xiu Bo wondered if he was about to die. As a powerful earthquake rocked the ground beneath him, he tried to escape his house&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4191,"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":[41,263,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-taiwan","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\/63089","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\/4191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63114,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63089\/revisions\/63114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}