{"id":1510,"date":"2016-04-11T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2016-04-17T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:16:51","slug":"strong-earthquake-hits-south-asia-shaking-buildings-in-pakistan-afghanistan-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake hits South Asia, shaking buildings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2-300x168.png\" alt=\"untitled 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2-200x113.png 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A magnitude-6.6 earthquake has struck South Asia, shaking buildings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, although there are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was centred near Chitral in remote northwestern Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, at a depth of 210km.<\/p>\n<p>Residents left their homes in Kabul and Islamabad when the quake struck, with buildings swaying for more than a minute in both capitals. Similar reports were received from across northern and central Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>People in the Pakistani city of Lahore, 630km from the epicentre, also reported feeling the tremors.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters witness in Chitral said the tremor was strong but no major damage was visible.<\/p>\n<p>A 7.5-magnitude quake struck the area on October 26 last year, killing more than 300 people and destroying thousands of homes.<\/p>\n<p>In Kabul, Omar Mohammadi, a spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority, said officials were collecting information but no reports of casualties or damage had been received.<\/p>\n<p>Tremors were also felt in the Indian capital, New Delhi, and in Kashmir, witnesses said, some people in high-rise buildings in the Indian capital rushing into the streets. The Delhi underground system was also halted briefly, commuters told the NDTV channel.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu Kush area bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan is a seismically active area, with quakes often felt across the region. Just over a decade ago a 7.6-magnitude quake in another part of northern Pakistan killed about 75,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters\/ SMH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude-6.6 earthquake has struck South Asia, shaking buildings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, although&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,10,31,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2-300x168.png",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",620,347,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/untitled-2.png",480,269,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}