{"id":4482,"date":"2024-02-25T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2024-02-25T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T11:18:44","slug":"a-small-earthquake-occurred-in-nyaung-u-township-early-this-morning-causing-no-damage-to-ancient-bagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=4482","title":{"rendered":"A small earthquake occurred in Nyaung U Township early this morning, causing no damage to ancient Bagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 February 2024<br>Today, February 24th, at 5:06:16 a.m. Myanmar time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale was measured at a depth of 10 kilometers about 7 miles northwest of Nyaung U Earthquake Station.<br>Regarding the incident, U Kyaw Min, chief of the Nyaung U Township Fire Brigade, said, &#8220;The earthquake was not very strong, so it did not become a very significant situation. There is no damage around the ancient cultural area,&#8221; he replied to MT News&#8217; question about the natural disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the 1975 earthquake in Bagan region, many cultural heritages were damaged, and after the 2016 earthquake, about 65 famous pagodas in Bagan were damaged and some people died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bagan Ancient Civilization Area, which was affected by such natural disasters, has now become a World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNESCO is overseeing the conservation, repair and sustainability projects of the Bagan cultural area together with the Department of Archeology and National Museum (Bagan Division).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-24_14-49-49-1-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-24_14-49-49-1-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-24_14-49-49-1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-24_14-49-49-1-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-24_14-49-49-1-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-24_14-49-49-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 February 2024Today, February 24th, at 5:06:16 a.m. Myanmar time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","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\/4482","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}