Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hits Ladakh

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Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit Ladakh at round 10 pm on Tuesday, National Center for Seismology knowledgeable. The quake occurred simply days after a robust earthquake of magnitude 6.3 had hit Tajikistan, whereas tremors for as much as 30-40 seconds have been felt in Delhi-NCR, different elements of north India.

Earlier on February 13, a robust earthquake rocked Jammu and Kashmir in a single day as folks ran out of their houses to flee being trapped with studies of a number of buildings growing cracks because of the temblor.

There are studies of widespread panic attributable to the earthquake with locals at many locations within the Valley spending a sleepless evening fearing after shocks.

Officials of the catastrophe administration authority had stated, “A powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale occurred in J&Ok at 10.34 pm on Friday.

“The epicentre of the earthquake was in Tajikistan with its latitude 31.57 levels north and longitude 75.09 levels east. It occurred 10 Kilometres contained in the earth’s crust. Earthquakes measuring 6 to six.9 on the Richter scale are seismologically categorised as of ‘robust’ magnitude.

Kashmir has a historical past of devastations attributable to earthquakes as a result of the Valley is located in a extremely earthquake-prone area.

Over 80,000 folks have been killed on two sides of the road of management (LoC) in Kashmir Aby an earthquake that occurred on October 8, 2005 with a magnitude of seven.3 on the Richter scale.

(With inputs from IANS)
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