{"id":528332,"date":"2010-04-15T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:01:03","slug":"quake-kills-at-least-400-in-mineral-rich-western-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528332","title":{"rendered":"Quake kills at least 400 in mineral-rich western province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/15quake.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/04\/15\/world\/15quake-cnd-span2\/15quake-cnd-span2-articleLarge-v2.jpg\" width=\"316\" align=\"left\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/14\/2\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: A strong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Earthquake\">earthquake<\/a> that struck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_China\">China&#8217;s western Qinghai province<\/a> has  left at least 400 people dead and injured 10,000, Chinese state media  reported.<\/p>\n<p>The quake occurred in a region that is rich in natural gas and has  deposits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Copper\">copper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Public_Health_Statement_for_Tin\">tin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Coal\">coal<\/a>. The 7.1 magnitude earthquake damaged  90 percent of the homes in the county seat, Jeigu, to collapse,  seismologist Gu Guohua said. Many of the houses were made of wood, mud  and brick.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty schoolchildren are still missing, buried in the wreckage of a  primary school, and as many as 50 people are trapped beneath a  collapsed office building that included offices for the Departments of  Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Workers today scrambled to release water from a reservoir after the  quake caused cracks in a dam, according to the China Earthquake  Administration.<\/p>\n<p>As the day went on, 18 aftershocks measuring more than 6.0 pummeled  the region, Xinhua reported (Andrew Jacobs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/15quake.html\" ><em>New  York Times<\/em><\/a>, April 14). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3287&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3287\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: A strong earthquake that struck China&#8217;s western Qinghai province has left at least 400 people dead and injured 10,000, Chinese state media reported. The quake occurred in a region that is rich in natural gas and has deposits of copper, tin and coal. The 7.1 magnitude earthquake damaged 90 percent of the homes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}