{"id":7652,"date":"2015-08-13T04:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2015-08-13T04:42:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:42:36","slug":"tianjin-warehouse-blasts-kill-dozens-injure-100s-in-a-mile-radius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/tianjin-warehouse-blasts-kill-dozens-injure-100s-in-a-mile-radius\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianjin warehouse blasts kill dozens, injure 100s in a mile+ radius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-5.24.27-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-5.24.27-AM-900x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tianjin blasts\" width=\"640\" height=\"728\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-5.24.27-AM-900x1024.jpg 900w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-5.24.27-AM-198x225.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-5.24.27-AM-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-5.24.27-AM.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>2 massive blasts apparently measuring 2.3, then 2.9, in magnitude on the earthquake scale, hit Tianjin a few hours ago at 11:30 pm Wednesday (US Time). Apparently, they originated in a port warehouse where explosive materials were stored and the blasts traveled through city sewers to wreak damage in a wide radius. <\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/12-firefighters-dead-china-blast-toll-rises-44-n408946\">Video of the blasts<\/a><br \/>\nVine of blasts by <a href=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/edHa9UxQzmF\">SkyNews<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/13\/world\/asia\/chinese-port-city-tianjin-rocked-by-enormous-explosion.html\">truck driver living a mile away<\/a>, said, \u201cThe air pressure from the blast was so strong it just knocked me down in one fell swoop.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A storefront disappears &#8230; hundreds are injured from flying glass and debris and upon release from the hospital discover that tbey are not allowed to return home &#8230; rows of volkswagen beetles awaiting delivery are burnt to a crisp &#8230; hundreds turn out to donate blood.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TianjinBlast&#038;src=tyah\">#TianjinBlast<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TianjinBlast%20video&#038;src=tyah\">#TianjinBlast video<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Tianjin%20explosion&#038;src=typd\">#Tianjin Explosion<\/a><br \/>\nGoogle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tianjin+blast&#038;client=safari&#038;sa=X&#038;rls=en&#038;biw=1270&#038;bih=695&#038;source=univ&#038;tbm=nws&#038;tbo=u&#038;ved=0CCMQsQRqFQoTCKnSnvngpccCFYMzPgodZ8oJhw\">newsfeed for Tianjin Blast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 massive blasts apparently measuring 2.3, then 2.9, in magnitude on the earthquake scale, hit Tianjin a few hours ago at 11:30 pm Wednesday (US Time). Apparently, they originated in a port warehouse where explosive materials were stored and the blasts traveled through city sewers to wreak damage in a wide radius. CNN Video of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/tianjin-warehouse-blasts-kill-dozens-injure-100s-in-a-mile-radius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tianjin warehouse blasts kill dozens, injure 100s in a mile+ radius&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}},"categories":[1,1973],"tags":[1974,1977,1975,1976],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-news","tag-china","tag-explosion","tag-tianjin","tag-tianjinblast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7656,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions\/7656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}