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Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hits Uttarakhand's Chamoli

Uttarakhand's Chamoli was struck by a minor low magnitude earthquake, the National Center for Seismology informed.

Edited By: Shashwat Bhandari @ShashBhandari New Delhi Updated on: July 08, 2024 0:06 IST
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Uttarakhand: An earthquake measuring 3.5 struck Uttarakhand's Chamoli on Sunday evening, the National Center for Seismology has reported.

Earlier on Wednesay, an low intensity earthquake had hit Ladakh. There were no immediate reports of any casualty or damage, officials said.

According to the National Center of Seismology (NCS), the earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km at 8.12 am.

Prior to that, last week, an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude hit Nepal's Bagmati Province, according to the National Earthquake Measurement Centre.

The quake with epicentre at Helambu Rural Municipality in Sindhupalchowk district, 100 km East of Kathmandu, struck around 7.03 am Friday, the agency said. Tremors were also felt in Kathmandu and other neighbouring districts. So far, there is no information about any damage caused by the earthquake.

Earthquakes are common in the Himalayan nation as it lies on a major geological faultline where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence.

At least 157 people were killed after a strong earthquake hit a remote pocket of Nepal last November.

Nearly 9,000 people died in 2015 when a 7.8-magnitude quake struck Nepal, destroying more than half a million homes.

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