{"id":19792,"date":"2026-08-16T15:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/magnitude-6-9-earthquake-hits-north-sumatra-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:01:04","slug":"magnitude-6-9-earthquake-hits-north-sumatra-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/magnitude-6-9-earthquake-hits-north-sumatra-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.9 Quake Hits North Sumatra, Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News sources say a magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck North Sumatra in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Jazeera, no further details have yet been released about possible damage, casualties, or the condition of affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported hours after media outlets said a magnitude 7.7 earthquake had hit Indonesia&#8217;s coast, an event that has so far killed at least 38 people, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sumatra is one of Indonesia&#8217;s largest islands, and the country, because of its location in the earthquake-prone belt, has repeatedly been hit by powerful quakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck North Sumatra, Indonesia, after a stronger offshore quake killed at least 38 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}