{"id":222525,"date":"2023-01-14T19:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222525"},"modified":"2023-01-14T19:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T14:00:40","slug":"joshimath-sank-by-5-4-cm-in-12-days-says-isro-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/joshimath-sank-by-5-4-cm-in-12-days-says-isro-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshimath sank by 5.4 cm in 12 days, says ISRO report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cJoshimath sank by 5.4 cm in 12 days, says ISRO report\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 13th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to images released by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO), Uttarakhand\u2019s Joshimath has witnessed a rapid subsidence of nearly 5.4 cm in the past 12 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Subsidence?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/joshimath-crisis-what-is-land-subsidence-and-why-does-it-happen\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why is Joshimath sinking?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joshimath town has great religious, spiritual and cultural importance. It is home to the monastery of Adi Sankaracharya and the gateway to the Badrinath temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it is built on the deposits of an old landslide which means the slopes can be destabilized even by slight triggers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The town is also in Zone V, denoting the highest risk, in India\u2019s seismic zonation scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, Joshimath\u2019s geological setting together with the unplanned and rampant construction in and around the town has resulted in land subsidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cJoshimath sank by 5.4 cm in 12 days, says ISRO report\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th January 2023 What is the News? According to images released by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO), Uttarakhand\u2019s Joshimath has witnessed a rapid subsidence&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/joshimath-sank-by-5-4-cm-in-12-days-says-isro-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joshimath sank by 5.4 cm in 12 days, says ISRO report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-222525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700808723,"cached_date":1703576863},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}