{"id":231153,"date":"2023-12-21T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231153"},"modified":"2023-12-21T01:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T19:33:58","slug":"800-year-old-monastery-develops-cracks-following-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/800-year-old-monastery-develops-cracks-following-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"800-year-old monastery develops cracks following earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KARGIL\/JAMMU, 20 Dec: An over 800-year-old monastery in Ladakh&#8217;s Zanskar area developed cracks following a recent earthquake and was declared unsafe, an official said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nA 5.5-magnitude earthquake followed by two aftershocks of lower intensity struck Zanskar in Kargil district on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe official said a government team headed by Tehsildar (Zanskar) Sonam Dorjay inspected the earthquake-affected areas, including the 800-year-old main Lakhang (protectors&#8217; room) of Karsha monastery.<br \/>\nThe monastery developed cracks due to the earthquake, the official said, adding the team decided to declare the site unsafe for &#8220;performing prayer and gathering.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe team requested the monastery monks to restrict entry in the affected Lakhang, the official said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARGIL\/JAMMU, 20 Dec: An over 800-year-old monastery in Ladakh&#8217;s Zanskar area developed cracks following a recent earthquake and was declared unsafe, an official said on Wednesday. A 5.5-magnitude earthquake followed by two aftershocks of lower intensity struck Zanskar in Kargil district on Saturday. The official said a government team headed by Tehsildar (Zanskar) Sonam Dorjay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}