{"id":37729,"date":"2021-09-22T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=37729"},"modified":"2021-09-22T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:53:02","slug":"magnitude-6-0-earthquake-strikes-near-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/09\/22\/magnitude-6-0-earthquake-strikes-near-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country&#8217;s biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country&#8217;s second largest city and sending tremors throughout neighbouring states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quake&#8217;s epicentre was near the rural town of Mansfield in the state of Victoria, about 200 km (124 miles) northeast of Melbourne, and was at a depth of 10 km (six miles). An aftershock was rated 4.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No tsunami threat was issued to the Australian mainland, islands or territories, the country&#8217;s Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country&#8217;s biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country&#8217;s second largest city and sending tremors throughout neighbouring states. The quake&#8217;s epicentre was near the rural town of Mansfield in the state of Victoria, about 200 km (124 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37731,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions\/37731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}