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The tremors were felt in parts of the national and adjacent areas on Sunday afternoon after a medium-intensity earthquake in Delhi.
According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake measured a magnitude of 3.4 on the Richter scale and had its epicenter in Wazirpur, northeast Delhi. No casualties or property losses have been reported. The earthquake occurred at a depth of five kilometers.
Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted saying he is “praying for everyone’s safety.”
Tremors were felt in Delhi. Praying for everyone’s safety.
– Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) May 10, 2020
This is the third earthquake in the national capital amid the national coronavirus blockade. Delhi had witnessed two consecutive low-intensity earthquake incidents in April with the same location and areas near the epicenter.
On April 13, an earthquake of moderate intensity of magnitude 3.5 hit the national capital at a depth of 8 km. The next day, another magnitude 2.7 low intensity earthquake struck parts of Delhi. The earthquake, with its epicenter near Wazirpur in northeast Delhi, occurred at 1.26 pm at a depth of 5 km, said JL Gautam, Chief (Operations) at NCS, an institute under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Of the four seismic zones in the country – Zone II, III, IV, V – Delhi is located in “Zone IV”. “Of these, Zone V is seismically the most active region, while Zone II is the least,” says a statement on the country’s seismic zones by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Zone – V It comprises the whole of Northeast India, parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Rann de Kutch in Gujarat, part of North Bihar, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zone – IV it covers remaining parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, Sikkim, Parts of Northern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, parts of Gujarat and small portions of Maharashtra near the west coast and Rajasthan.
Zone – III It comprises the Kerala, Goa, Lakshadweep islands, remaining parts of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and West Bengal, parts of Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Karnataka. Zone II covers the remaining parts of the country.
The national capital is vulnerable to earthquakes, but it is rare that it is the epicenter of an earthquake. However, Delhi experiences tremors when an earthquake strikes regions as far away as Central Asia or the Himalayan ranges, known to be a high seismic zone.
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