{"id":207735,"date":"2026-08-13T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=207735"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:46:17","slug":"5-5-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-leh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/08\/13\/5-5-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-leh.html","title":{"rendered":"5.5 magnitude earthquake jolts Leh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170922\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/Earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leh : An earthquake jolted the Ladakh region of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir early morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck Leh district early morning on August 13.<\/p>\n<p>No damage has been reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Seismology said the earthquake occurred at 6:05 am at a depth of 10 km.<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter of the earthquake has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leh : An earthquake jolted the Ladakh region of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir early morning. According to Kashmir Media Service, an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck Leh district early morning on August 13. No damage has been reported so far. The Center for Seismology said the earthquake occurred at 6:05 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ladakh-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5.5 magnitude earthquake jolts Leh &#062; Kashmir Media Service<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/08\/13\/5-5-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-leh.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5.5 magnitude earthquake jolts Leh &#062; Kashmir Media Service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leh : An earthquake jolted the Ladakh region of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir early morning. 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