Kolkata felt tremors of a massive earthquake of magnitude 6.1 that jolted the India-Myanmar border region early on Friday, which was officially reported by National Center for Seismology.
People, who felt the effects of the earthquake in parts of India, including Kolkata and Tripura, besides Bangladesh, took to Twitter to report the tremor.
According to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), a strong and shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Myanmar-India border region around 5.15am on Friday.
The quake struck 174km east of Bangladesh’s Chittagong, and the tremors were felt as far away as in West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam, according to the alert by the independent organisation and provider of real-time earthquake information.
Later, the EMSC pegged the earthquake magnitude at 5.8, after having earlier given it a magnitude of 6.0, and said the epicentre was about 126km southeast of Aizawl, the capital city of Mizoram.
According to the National Center for Seismology, the quake with a magnitude of 6.1 occurred at 5:15am. The central nodal agency, which monitors earthquake activity in the country, also said its epicentre was at a depth of 12km and 73km southeast of Thenzawl in Mizoram.
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Later, news agency AP quoted the US Geological Survey as saying the earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.8 km (20.4 miles) near Hakha city, the capital of Chin state northwest Myanmar, sending tremors that spread across the border to towns and cities in India and Bangladesh.
The agency said recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides that might have contributed to losses, but predicted the current quake exposed little or no population and areas to such risk.
Source: https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/news/kolkata-jolted-by-6-1-tremors-early-on-friday/cid/1840675
