53 killed in massive 6.8 magnitude tremor in Tibet
At least 53 people were killed and over 60 others injured following a massive 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Dingri County in Xigaze City in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday.
A low intensity quake of magnitude 3.0 struck Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba on Saturday morning.
SNS | New Delhi | June 23, 2018 12:02 pm
A low intensity quake of magnitude 3.0 struck Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba on Saturday morning. The India Meteorological Department said that the quake occurred at 2.37 am.
The epicentre of the quake was at the depth of 5 km. The epicentre of the quake was northwest of Chamba at the state border between Himachal and Jammu-Kashmir. Tremors were felt in Doda and Kishtwar in Jammu.
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There were no reports of damage.
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This is the third quake in the state in a span of 15 days. The previous two quakes struck Chamba and Shimla regions on 14 June and 17 June, respectively.
Read More: 4.6 magnitude earthquake rocks Himachal’s Chamba district
According to MET department, an earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale struck the state capital Shimla at a depth of 5 km on 17 June. Chamba district was rocked by a low intensity earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale on 14 June. That same day, an earthquake of magnitude 4.0 struck Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand.
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At least 53 people were killed and over 60 others injured following a massive 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Dingri County in Xigaze City in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday.
A powerful earthquake of 7.1 magnitude struck Nepal on Tuesday morning, sending tremors across parts of North India, including Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim and Delhi-NCR.
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history.
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