{"id":9301,"date":"2021-03-20T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:12:16","slug":"a-strong-earthquake-shook-the-coast-of-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9301","title":{"rendered":"A Strong Earthquake Shook the Coast of Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred in the Pacific <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=5790\">Ocean<\/a> 764 km northwest of Macquarie Island (Australia, Tasmania).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; March 20, 2021 \u2013 International News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the service, the epicenter, recorded at 7:19 Kyiv time on Saturday, quake was about 800 km off the coast of Antarctica and 1889 km south of Hobart on the island of Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The intensity of tremors in the epicenter of the earthquake is assessed as &#8220;destructive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The terrain of Antarctica under the ice is quite <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=5702\">complex<\/a>. Antarctica is the only continent on our planet where no major earthquakes have been recorded. In addition, Antarctica is surrounded by mobile mid-ocean ridges. More than a dozen seismic stations operate on the mainland, and observations of the earth&#8217;s crust have been observed for a long time. The first earthquake was recorded here in 1985. In Antarctica, several huge faults of the earth&#8217;s crust were discovered. One of them stretched across the Weddell Sea to the outskirts of the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8588\">A Powerful Earthquake Hits the Kuriles | Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean 764 km northwest of Macquarie Island (Australia, Tasmania). Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; March 20, 2021 \u2013 International News \u00a0 According to the service, the epicenter, recorded at 7:19 Kyiv time on Saturday, quake was about 800 km off the coast of Antarctica and 1889 km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4913,4914,1875,4915,1024,1854],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-antarctica","tag-coast","tag-earthquakes","tag-magnitude","tag-ukrgate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}