{"id":1708,"date":"2016-02-07T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T09:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/07\/taiwan-investigates-building-toppled-in-quake-after-oil-cans-spotted-in-its-pillars\/"},"modified":"2016-02-07T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T09:41:40","slug":"taiwan-investigates-building-toppled-in-quake-after-oil-cans-spotted-in-its-pillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/07\/taiwan-investigates-building-toppled-in-quake-after-oil-cans-spotted-in-its-pillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan investigates building toppled in quake after oil cans spotted in its pillars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oilcanscropped\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzA3L2I3L29pbGNhbnNjcm9wLjY5OGNhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/1d39e8b1\/afd\/oilcanscropped.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Taiwan+investigates+building+toppled+in+quake+after+oil+cans+spotted+in+its+pillars&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F07%2Ftaiwan-earthquake-oil-cans%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F07%2Ftaiwan-earthquake-oil-cans%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Questions about the structural integrity of a toppled 17-storey building have been raised, after it crumbled in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/05\/taiwan-earthquake-topples-buildings\/\">6.4-magnitude earthquake<\/a> Saturday morning in southern Taiwan that is known to have killed 18 people and injured 484 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Images have been circulating online of cooking oil cans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/photo\/2016\/02\/07\/2008128839\">clearly visible<\/a> in pillars of the collapsed Wei Guan Golden Dragon Building in Tainan City, which was built in 1989. Some are questioning whether the oil cans were used as shoddy filler material in the building&#8217;s construction, and if this had a part to play in the building coming down in the quake.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/06\/taiwan-earthquake-photos\/\">The aftermath of Taiwan&#8217;s earthquake in 13 devastating photos<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/07\/taiwan-earthquake-oil-cans\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/asia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Asia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/taiwan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Taiwan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/taiwan-earthquake\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Taiwan Earthquake<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tainan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tainan<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/RLmYl6H-FM0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions about the structural integrity of a toppled 17-storey building have been raised, after it crumbled in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake Saturday morning in southern Taiwan that is known to have killed 18 people and injured 484 so far. Images have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/07\/taiwan-investigates-building-toppled-in-quake-after-oil-cans-spotted-in-its-pillars\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1298,1322,1320,1321,732],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-asia","tag-tainan","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-earthquake","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}