{"id":36728,"date":"2013-09-24T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=36728"},"modified":"2013-09-24T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:22:17","slug":"30-dead-in-pakistan-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=36728","title":{"rendered":"30 dead in Pakistan earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pkistan-quake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36725\" alt=\"pkistan-quake\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pkistan-quake.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pkistan-quake.jpg 466w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pkistan-quake-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a>A deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Pakistan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll rose quickly, with at least 30 deaths reported in the quake&#8217;s aftermath in Awaran in Balochistan province, said Asad Gilani, the province&#8217;s home secretary.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fatalities, &#8220;dozens have been injured,&#8221; Gilani said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials fear people are trapped in the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>The province declared a rescue emergency. All officials were put on high alert, and doctors at hospitals were on standby.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 troops have been sent to the area to provide aid, including rescue teams and medical teams, Lt. Col. Abid Ali Askari said.<\/p>\n<p>The tremors lasted two minutes. People flocked out onto the streets of Quetta, the provincial capital.<\/p>\n<p>The quake was strong enough to cause a mass 30 to 40 feet high to emerge from the ocean like a small mountain island off the coast of Gwadar, local police official Mozzam Jah said. A large number of people gathered to view the newly formed island, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zahid Rafi, principal seismologist of the National Seismic Monitoring Center, confirmed the island had. He said that this is &#8220;not surprising&#8221; considering the magnitude of the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Pakistan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-36728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-pakistan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}