{"id":230,"date":"2010-01-18T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/01\/18\/very-small-earthquake-kills-seven-in-landslides-in-china\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:24","slug":"very-small-earthquake-kills-seven-in-landslides-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/01\/18\/very-small-earthquake-kills-seven-in-landslides-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Very small earthquake kills seven in landslides in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iS3krwKuLsrAkl4Mt0kiUwvYm3eA\">AFP is reporting<\/a> that an earthquake struck <span>Guanling, Zhenfeng and Zhenning<\/span> districts in Guizhou province at 09:35 UT yesterday (Sunday), triggering two landslides that have killed seven people and left one person missing. <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/world-news\/seven-killed-in-china-earthquake-3332740\">Other news agencies<\/a> are reporting that one of the landslides struck a boat on a river.<\/p>\n<p>The peculiar thing about this is that the earthquake appears to have been very small indeed.  The USGS does not have a report of the event on its <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsww\/Maps\/region\/Asia.php\">global earthquake web site<\/a>, meaning that it presumably did not reach their minimum size threshold.  The Chinese Earthquake Administration report is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cea.gov.cn\/manage\/html\/8a8587881632fa5c0116674a018300cf\/_content\/10_01\/18\/1263780508710.html\">here<\/a>.  This confirms the occurrence of the two landslides and the seven fatalities, but also notes that the earthquake had a magnitude of just 3.4 (local magnitude ML=4.0) and a depth of 7 km.  This is an usually small earthquake to trigger landslides.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP is reporting that an earthquake struck Guanling, Zhenfeng and Zhenning districts in Guizhou province at 09:35 UT yesterday (Sunday), triggering two landslides that have killed seven people and left one person missing. Other news agencies are reporting that one of the landslides struck a boat on a river. The peculiar thing about this is that the earthquake appears to have been very small indeed. The USGS does not have &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,23,959],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-earthquake","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}