{"id":76958,"date":"2025-03-28T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/myanmar-earthquake-what-is-a-7-7-magnitude-earthquake-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:44:56","slug":"myanmar-earthquake-what-is-a-7-7-magnitude-earthquake-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/myanmar-earthquake-what-is-a-7-7-magnitude-earthquake-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar earthquake: What is a 7.7 magnitude earthquake? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 7.7 magnitude earthquake &#8211; which the US Geological Survey says had an epicentre in central Myanmar &#8211; has also <!--more--> been felt in neighbouring countries, including Thailand where an unfinished high-rise has collapsed. <\/p>\n<p>But what do we mean when we say a 7.7 magnitude earthquake? <\/p>\n<p>BBC science reporter Esme Stallard explains that it&#8217;s a measure of momentum and how much movement there has been in the top layer of the earth. <\/p>\n<p>Mynamar is a very tectonically active region &#8211; as it&#8217;s situated at the junction of 4 tectonic plates. <\/p>\n<p>However the magnitude of the earthquake is unusual &#8211; the BBC believe the reason was because the earthquake occurred only 10 killometres below the earth&#8217;s crust.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a> For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Myanmar #Earthquake #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7.7 magnitude earthquake &#8211; which the US Geological Survey says had an epicentre in central Myanmar &#8211; has also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}