The epicentre, with a depth of 17 km, was monitored at 30.4 degrees north latitude and 102.9 degrees east longitude, the CENC said. Sichuan province suffered China's deadliest 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 in which 90,000 people were killed.
The quake swayed some buildings in La Paz, the capital of neighbouring Bolivia, where people fled into the streets.
There were no reports of any loss of life or any damage to property due to the earthquake.
Earthquake tremors were felt at 6:08 am today in Haryana's Jhajjar
The Japan Meteorological Agency said there may be small swelling of the water but there was no danger of a tsunami.
Officials of the disaster management authority said an earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale occurred in J&K at 5.35 a.m. on Thursday.
The impact of the super earthquake was extremely devastating that it uplifted land structures and sent humans into hiding for almost 1000 years, say scientists.
The National Center for Seismology further said the earthquake occurred 186 km North of Alchi in Leh.
The same region was hit by another earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter scale a few days ago.
The region is part of an area devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that caused nuclear reactor meltdowns, spewing massive radiation that still makes some parts uninhabitable.
The tremor struck at 7.05 pm and lasted for a few seconds, an official of the Meteorological department said.
In Indonesia, a magnitude-6.7 quake that was 16 kilometers deep struck about 169 kilometers west of Pariaman, a town in West Sumatra province, the US Geological Survey said.
In January 2001, a massive earthquake had jolted the district in which 13,800 people were killed and another 1.67 lakh were injured.
There were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property due to the earthquake.
There were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property due to the earthquake.
The earthquake occurred at around 5.03 am.
Jolts of earthquake were also felt in parts of north India today.
A disaster management official said the temblor occurred at 2.53 a.m., and the coordinates were latitude 36.06 degrees north and longitude 75.82 degrees east.
The epicentre of the earthquake, which struck at 3.42 PM, was at latitude 23.10 N and longitude 93.75 E at a depth of 60 km in a border area in neighbouring Myanmar
This area of the Aleutians, a chain of islands that jut off from southwest Alaska, has experienced a lot of seismic activity in the last year, including several large earthquakes.
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