{"id":1029,"date":"2004-12-26T13:28:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2004-12-26T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T20:28:38","slug":"ten-thousand-dead-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/ten-thousand-dead-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten thousand dead in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically South and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote\"><b>Washington Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A26306-2004Dec26.html\">Tidal Waves Kill More Than 10,000 in Asia<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nHuge Earthquake Sparks Tsunamis Throughout Southeast Asia<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia Dec. 26 &#8212; A gargantuan earthquake centered off the west coast of Indonesia unleashed a series of tidal waves Sunday morning that crashed into coastal towns, fishing villages and tourist resorts from India and Sri Lanka to Thailand and Malaysia, killing more than 10,000 people and leaving many more missing. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 8.9 on the Richter scale, making it the fifth strongest since 1900. It was the largest since 1964, when Alaska was jolted by a quake measuring 9.2. <\/p>\n<p>The initial quake struck the western tip of Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra island shortly after 7 a.m. local time, flattening buildings and sending a wall of water about five yards high into the cities and towns of Aceh province, according to witnesses reached by telephone.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To put this in perspective, imagine the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.malibu.ca.us\/\">Malibu, CA<\/a> being completely wiped out by a tidal wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically South and Southeast Asia. Washington Post: Tidal Waves Kill More Than 10,000 in Asia Huge Earthquake Sparks Tsunamis Throughout Southeast Asia JAKARTA, Indonesia Dec. 26 &#8212; A gargantuan earthquake centered off the west coast of Indonesia unleashed a series of tidal waves Sunday morning that crashed into coastal towns, fishing villages and tourist resorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-gB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}