{"id":308,"date":"2014-03-22T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/?p=308"},"modified":"2014-03-22T00:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:00:23","slug":"6-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-andaman-nicobar-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/6-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-andaman-nicobar-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes off Andaman and Nicobar Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/6-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-andaman-nicobar-islands\/earthquake-in-andaman-and-nicobar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309\" alt=\"Earthquak in Andaman and Nicobar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/mapinnews\/earthquake-in-andaman-and-nicobar.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/mapinnews\/earthquake-in-andaman-and-nicobar.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/mapinnews\/earthquake-in-andaman-and-nicobar-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Andaman and Nicobar Islands struck by a magnitude 6.7 Earthquake<\/h2>\n<p>According to the report by the U.S. Geological Survey, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter Scale struck the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at around 7.11 pm today. The earthquake tremors were felt by the local islanders but no loss of life or casualties has been reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) stated, &#8220;We do not see any threat of a Tsunami warning due to this. However, we have issued a general warning and have kept our system on high alert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Major Highlights:<br \/>\nMagnitude 6.5<br \/>\nLocation 7.769N 94.325E<br \/>\nDepth 10 km<br \/>\nDistances 113 km (70 mi) E of Mohean, India<br \/>\n234 km (145 mi) NNW of Sabang, Indonesia<br \/>\n268 km (166 mi) NNW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia<br \/>\n319 km (197 mi) NW of Sigli, Indonesia<br \/>\n946 km (586 mi) SW of Bangkok, Thailand<br \/>\nSouce: U.S. Geological Survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Andaman and Nicobar Islands struck by a magnitude 6.7 Earthquake According to the report by the U.S. Geological Survey, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter Scale struck the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at around 7.11 pm today. The earthquake tremors were felt by the local islanders but no loss of life or casualties has been reported so far. Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) stated, &#8220;We do not see any threat of a Tsunami warning due to this. However, we have issued a general warning and have kept our system on high alert.&#8221; Major Highlights: &hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/6-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-andaman-nicobar-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}