{"id":356345,"date":"2021-04-16T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=356345"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:12:06","slug":"an-earthquake-hits-parts-of-eastern-ethiopia-including-dire-dawa-and-harar-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/356345","title":{"rendered":"An earthquake hits parts of eastern Ethiopia including Dire Dawa and Harar towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake hit parts of eastern Ethiopia including Haremaya, Dire Dawa and Harar towns, a senior expert has disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The 3.0 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale started at about 8:38 local time in the evening and was active for a few seconds, Geology, Astronomy and Space Science Director in the Addis Ababa University Professor Atalay Ayele has said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the director, the earthquake had centered at a place called Ejersa Goro but it was felt in Dire Dawa, Haremay and Harar towns.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Atalay said the earthquake occurred in the Ethiopian Rift Valley and caused no damage. Earthquakes of such kind occur frequently in Semera, capital of Afar regional state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake hit parts of eastern Ethiopia including Haremaya, Dire Dawa and Harar towns, a senior expert has disclosed. The 3.0 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale started at about 8:38 local time in the evening and was active for a few seconds, Geology, Astronomy and Space Science Director in the Addis Ababa University Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":356346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ejerssa-2.jpg?fit=275%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uHv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356347,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356345\/revisions\/356347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}