{"id":381,"date":"2014-05-21T23:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/?p=381"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:27:05","slug":"6-0-magnitude-earthquake-hits-bay-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/6-0-magnitude-earthquake-hits-bay-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Bay of Bengal, Tremors Felt Across India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Bay of Bengal<\/h2>\n

Eastern and northern parts of India were hit by an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 (Richter scale) on Wednesday, 21st<\/sup> May, 2014. Bay of Bengal is reported to be the epicentre, approx. 275 km South-East of Paradip Garh. While the nearby states, namely, Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand felt moderate tremors of the quake, parts of North India was mildly jolted. So far, no loss of life or property has been reported.<\/p>\n

Quick Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date of Occurrence<\/td>\n21st<\/sup> May 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time<\/td>\n21:51:50 HRS(IST)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Epicentre<\/td>\nLatitude 18.3\u00b0N, Longitude 87.9\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Magnitude<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Depth<\/td>\n10 km<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intensity<\/td>\nModerate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Region<\/td>\nBay of Bengal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nearby cities<\/td>\nParadip Garh, Konark, Puri, Nimaparha (in India)Dhaka (Bangladesh)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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*Sources: <\/b><\/p>\n

India Meteorological Department (imd.gov.in)<\/p>\n

USGS (earthquake.usgs.gov)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Bay of Bengal Eastern and northern parts of India were hit by an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 (Richter scale) on Wednesday, 21st May, 2014. Bay of Bengal is reported to be the epicentre, approx. 275 km South-East of Paradip Garh. While the nearby states, namely, Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand felt moderate tremors of the quake, parts of North India was mildly jolted. So far, no loss of life or property has been reported. Quick Facts: Date of Occurrence 21st May 2014 Time 21:51:50 HRS(IST) Epicentre Latitude 18.3\u00b0N, Longitude 87.9\u00b0E Magnitude 6 Depth 10 km …Continue reading →<\/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-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/mapinnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}