{"id":57728,"date":"2026-11-03T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57728"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:19:39","slug":"cyclone-murasu-makes-landfall-on-indias-eastern-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/cyclone-murasu-makes-landfall-on-indias-eastern-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Murasu makes landfall on India&#8217;s eastern coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters :\u00a0 Cyclone Murasu made landfall \u200balong India&#8217;s eastern coast on Tuesday, the country&#8217;s \u200cweather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bIndia Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm \u200bcrossed the coast of the south-eastern state of \u2060Andhra Pradesh between 03:30 and 05:30 local time, with \u200bwind speeds of 100-110 kph (62 to 68 mph) and gusts \u200bof up to 120 kph.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths or injuries have been reported so far, although some trees and electric poles were uprooted, \u200bPrakhar Jain, Managing Director of the Andhra Pradesh State \u200bDisaster Management Authority, said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities began evacuating thousands of people on Monday \u200cand \u2060planned to move some 30,000 to safety in Andhra Pradesh, which is in the path of the cyclone.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Murasu formed over the Bay of Bengal, a major region for \u200btropical cyclones \u200bthat has \u2060spawned deadly storms on India&#8217;s east coast.<\/p>\n<p>IMD forecasts said the states of Andhra Pradesh and \u200bTamil Nadu to its south would be \u200bworst \u2060hit.<br \/>\nAt least six people were killed in Cyclone Arnab, which was classified by IMD as a very severe cyclonic storm and \u2060made \u200blandfall in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting \u200bby Jatindra Dash, Rishika Sadam, Kanjyik Ghosh; writing by Shanima Aniyeri, Chris \u200bThomas; Editing by YP Rajesh, Nia Williams and Saad Sayeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters :\u00a0 Cyclone Murasu made landfall \u200balong India&#8217;s eastern coast on Tuesday, the country&#8217;s \u200cweather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety. The \u200bIndia Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm \u200bcrossed the coast of the south-eastern state of \u2060Andhra Pradesh between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57731,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57728\/revisions\/57731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}