{"id":12196,"date":"2026-05-18T02:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:46:56","slug":"5-3-magnitude-quake-hits-near-south-coast-of-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=12196","title":{"rendered":"5.3-magnitude quake hits near south coast of Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18 May 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted near the south coast of Myanmar at 02:05:25 GMT on Monday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 16.56 degrees north latitude and 96.40 degrees east longitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strong tremors were felt in Myanmar&#8217;s Yangon on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 May 2026 An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted near the south coast of Myanmar at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12198,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions\/12198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}