{"id":90232,"date":"2019-05-02T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/monster-cyclone-in-india-prompts-the-biggest-evacuation-in-the-countrys-history"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:47:18","slug":"monster-cyclone-in-india-prompts-the-biggest-evacuation-in-the-countrys-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/monster-cyclone-in-india-prompts-the-biggest-evacuation-in-the-countrys-history","title":{"rendered":"Monster Cyclone in India Prompts the Biggest Evacuation in the Country\u2019s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monster-cyclone-in-india-prompts-the-biggest-evacuation-in-the-countrys-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive cyclone is set to batter India over the next few days, spurring the biggest evacuation in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The extremely severe cyclone, dubbed \u201cFani,\u201d is pummeling the Bay of Bengal and is projected to make landfall by Thursday night with approximately 120 mph (190 km\/h) winds, with gusts up to 130 mph (210 km\/h), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imd.gov.in\/pages\/press_release_view.php?ff=20190501_pr_464\">according to the India Meteorological Department<\/a> (IMD). Fani is also likely to bring \u201cphenomenal\u201d sea conditions in parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/30778-mysterious-booming-sounds-explanations.html\">Bay of Bengal<\/a>, according to the IMD.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 million people are in the path of the devastating cyclone, and nearly 900,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/0ef208cbcd974e0e9e64332caaff0dde\">the Associated Press reported<\/a>. About 100,000 of those people are from the city of Puri, in the state of Odisha, which is home to the 858-year-old Jaganath Temple, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-48121606\">BBC reported<\/a>. Officials fear that this ancient temple could be damaged by the cyclone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65385-hurricane-fani-targets-india.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive cyclone is set to batter India over the next few days, spurring the biggest evacuation in the country\u2019s history. The extremely severe cyclone, dubbed \u201cFani,\u201d is pummeling the Bay of Bengal and is projected to make landfall by Thursday night with approximately 120 mph (190 km\/h) winds, with gusts up to 130 mph [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}