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6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar-India Border Region

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter Scale hit the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region this afternoon. According to the National…

PTI | New Delhi | January 7, 2018 2:49 pm

6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar-India Border Region

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter Scale hit the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region this afternoon.

According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), a unit of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the quake occured at 12:17 pm at a depth of 35 km.

It occured in the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region at a latitude of 24.7 N and longitude of 94.7 E, it said.

# Opinion

Issues before Japan

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# India

Earthquake of 4.6 magnitude jolts Assam and Bhutan, no casualties reported

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# World

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