{"id":447909,"date":"2025-09-02T09:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=447909"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:39:26","slug":"search-for-survivors-still-on-after-800-killed-in-an-earthquake-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/search-for-survivors-still-on-after-800-killed-in-an-earthquake-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for survivors still on after 800 killed in an earthquake in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A desperate search for survivors is on after a\u00a0powerful earthquake\u00a0killed at least 800 people and wounded more than 2,800 in eastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Several villages in the impoverished country\u2019s Kunar province have been wiped off the map after the magnitude 6.0 quake, with its epicentre some 27km (17 miles) northeast of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, struck at\u00a0about midnight\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers are struggling to reach remote mountainous areas cut off from road and mobile networks.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is\u00a0frequently hit\u00a0by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AJ<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A desperate search for survivors is on after a\u00a0powerful earthquake\u00a0killed at least 800 people and wounded more than 2,800 in eastern Afghanistan. Several villages in the impoverished country\u2019s Kunar province have been wiped off the map after the magnitude 6.0 quake, with its epicentre some 27km (17 miles) northeast of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":447910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-447909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447911,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447909\/revisions\/447911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}