Tremors felt in Delhi-NCR as Faridabad hit by 3.1 magnitude earthquake

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Delhi-NCR felt tremors from an earthquake at approximately 4 pm on October 15.

"Earthquake of Magnitude:3.1, Occurred on 15-10-2023, 16:08:16 IST, Lat: 28.41 & Long: 77.41, Depth: 10 Km ,Location: 9km E of Faridabad, Haryana, India," posts @NCS_Earthquake. pic.twitter.com/6aF2GPZuxc

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 15, 2023

Faridabad, Haryana, experienced an earthquake at 4:08 pm, with a magnitude of 3.1 on the Richter Scale, reported National Center for Seismology (NCS), the nodal agency of the Government of India for monitoring of earthquake activity in the country.

This comes days after similar strong jolts were felt on October 3 around the national capital. At that time, Nepal recorded a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. Other cities in the region such as Lucknow and Bareilly had also experienced the tremors.

A resident of Delhi told news agency PTI, "I felt the tremor while I was sitting on a chair. I went outside to check and other people also experienced it. Of late, these tremors have been coming at regular intervals. Only nature knows what is happening but we are in shock."

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan earlier in the day, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region. The U.S. Geological Survey said the latest quake’s epicentre was about 34 kilometres (21 miles) outside Herat, the provincial capital, and eight kilometres (five miles) below the surface. There were no immediate official reports of possible casualties or damage. The earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened whole villages in Herat, in one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history.