An earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar on Wednesday.
As per National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the quake was in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir at a depth of 5 km.
The tremor was felt at 04:00 pm.
An earthquake of 4.3 magnitude hit Katra town in Jammu-Kashmir in the wee hours of Wednesday.
According to the National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake occurred at 2:20 at a depth of 10 km, 81 km ENE of Katra. “An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter Scale hit 81km ENE of Katra, Jammu and Kashmir at around 2.20 am today,” the National Centre for Seismology said in a tweet.
It is pertinent to mention that a strong 5.4 high intensity earthquake jolted Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, causing major cracks in over a dozen structures including schools, hospitals, and residential houses.
According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake’s epicentre was at a depth of 6 km in the Doda district of Jammu division.
The tremors were felt across Delhi and other parts of North India, and in neighbouring Pakistan.
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in the UT at 1:33 PM, according to the NCS. Its epicentre was in the Doda region of Jammu division, at a depth of about 30 kilometres.
It scared people in remote villages and sent panicked residents fleeing their homes and offices.
Damage to government buildings and cracks in private houses have been reported in the Doda and Kishtwar districts, as well as the sub-district town of Bhaderwah.
Due to the tremors, a few buildings in Doda’s Bhaderwah town developed cracks.A ward of the sub-district hospital’s false ceiling also collapsed.
