{"id":102609,"date":"2020-11-22T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T06:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=102609"},"modified":"2020-11-22T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T06:44:27","slug":"5-2-magnitude-quake-hits-24-km-wsw-of-azzaba-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=102609","title":{"rendered":"5.2-Magnitude Quake Hits 24 Km WSW Of Azzaba, Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIJING, Nov 22 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2, jolted 24 km WSW of Azzaba, Algeria, at 4:53 this morning, local time (0353 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 36.6296 degrees north latitude and 6.8673 degrees east longitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary seismic data indicated that the shallow quake should have been widely felt by almost everyone in the area of the epicentre, along with moderate damage to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No damage or casualties have been reported, so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, in Mar this year, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted 25km SSE of El Eulma, Algeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mediterranean region is seismically active, due to the northward convergence of the African plate with respect to the Eurasian plate, along a complex plate boundary.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov 22 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2, jolted 24 km WSW of Azzaba, Algeria, at 4:53 this morning, local time (0353 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 36.6296 degrees north latitude and 6.8673 degrees east longitude. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":102612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}