Earthquake in Delhi and many parts of North India.
Key sentence:
- On Thursday night, a medium-intensity earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale struck many areas of Delhi and the National Capital.
- Haryana’s Rewari was the epicentre of the earthquake, as per the National Center for Seismology of India (NCS).
- It was the eleventh minor earthquake that has been reported since May in and around Delhi.
- As Delhi has seldom been the epicentre of an earthquake, none of these apprehensions has any empirical foundation.
On Thursday night, a medium-intensity earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale struck many areas of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), causing individuals to rush out of their homes.
In Delhi and surrounding areas for several seconds, powerful tremors were felt. At 11:46 pm, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.5km under the surface. As earthquakes of magnitude four or below hardly cause any damage, no damage to life or property has been recorded.
As Skymet Weather tweeted:
Haryana’s Rewari was the epicentre of the earthquake, as per the National Center for Seismology of India (NCS). Delhi NCR earthquake tremors. Tremors were felt in Gurugram, Noida as well as Ghaziabad.
“The epicentre eradicated to be 48 kilometre southwest of Gurugram, according to the National Centre for Seismology,” Skymet Weather tweeted. Geologists claim Delhi, which sits close to a fault line, is vulnerable to major earthquakes. In seismic zone IV, a very high-risk zone, the city falls.
An earthquake detected near Delhi in June:
An earthquake of magnitude 2.1 was discovered near Delhi in June. It was the eleventh minor earthquake that has been reported since May in and around Delhi. A magnitude 2.2 earthquake on the Richter Scale struck 13km NW of New Delhi on 15 May.
The national capital, the epicentre in the Wazirpur district of NCR, was shaken by a magnitude 3.4 earthquake on May 10, which was the biggest this year before the earthquake announced on Thursday. There were also earthquakes of magnitudes 3.5 to 2.7 respectively in the Delhi area on April 12 and 13.
Delhi an epicentre of an earthquake:
These current earthquakes have sparked debate about the likelihood of increased seismicity around Delhi, and concerns of an imminent major earthquake in the near future. As Delhi has seldom been the epicentre of an earthquake, none of these apprehensions has any empirical foundation.
Even when an earthquake happens in Central Asia or the Himalayan ranges, which are seismically the most active areas, Delhi experiences quakes and an earthquake in Delhi sets the alarm because of the large population as well as high density.
