{"id":2810,"date":"2016-04-18T04:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T20:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/death-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T04:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T20:34:18","slug":"death-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/death-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from a powerful earthquake in Ecuador rises to 238"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_113790276327\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE3L2QwL0FQXzExMzc5MDI3Ljk3MzMwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/b87ae88b\/c6f\/AP_113790276327.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Death+toll+from+a+powerful+earthquake+in+Ecuador+rises+to+238&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fdeath-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238%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%2F04%2F17%2Fdeath-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238%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>The death toll in Ecuador has risen to 238 following a powerful earthquake on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials, who released the new figures in a press release Sunday, said hundreds of buildings were also destroyed in the magnitude-7.8 quake. Major roads remain closed in the areas hardest hit by the quake.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/16\/ecuador-earthquake\/\">Destructive 7.8-magnitude earthquake kills 77 in Ecuador, topples buildings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The earthquake is the strongest to hit the South American country since 1979, was centered on Ecuador&#8217;s sparsely populated fishing ports and tourist beaches, 105 miles (170 kilometers) northwest of Quito, the capital. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/17\/death-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/earthquake\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Earthquake<\/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\/ecuador\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ecuador<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/climate\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Climate<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/natural-disasters\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Natural Disasters<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/cpKLHrIIXTI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Ecuador has risen to 238 following a powerful earthquake on Saturday evening. Government officials, who released the new figures in a press release Sunday, said hundreds of buildings were also destroyed in the magnitude-7.8 quake. Major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/death-toll-from-a-powerful-earthquake-in-ecuador-rises-to-238\/\">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":[898,1496,1998,2038,732],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-climate","tag-earthquake","tag-ecuador","tag-natural-disasters","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}