{"id":55350,"date":"2025-07-17T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=55350"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:47:18","slug":"tanimbar-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tanimbar-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanimbar Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Tanimbar Islands Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the coast of Indonesia\u2019s Tanimbar Islands region.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Tanimbar Islands<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Tanimbar Islands are in the <\/span><b>Indonesian province of Maluku,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the end of the long arc of islands that stretches from Sumatra through Java, Bali, Lombok and down through Timor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These Islands are a group of around 30 islands lie between the <\/span><b>Banda and Arafura seas.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of <\/span><b>Kei Archipelago <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and it belongs to Southeast Maluku Regency<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest <\/span><b>island in the group is Yamdena<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, some seventy miles long and forty miles wide at its widest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This island has thickly wooded hills along its eastern coast, while its western coast is lower and often swampy.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Seismic activity in Indonesia:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indonesia straddles the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the Earth\u2019s crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanic activity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/magnitude-67-earthquake-strikes-indonesias-tanimbar-islands-region-geophysics-agency-says\/article69809969.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanimbar Islands are a group of islands located in the Maluku province of Indonesia, known for their rich culture, biodiversity, and remote beauty. Read more about Tanimbar Islands, Location, Vegetation, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":55368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,1611,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-55350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-tanimbar-islands","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}