January 2020 Environment

• Four medium intensity earthquakes hit J&K
  Four medium intensity tremors with magnitudes ranging between 4.7 and 5.5 hit Jammu and Kashmir in a span of less than two hours last night.
  
  The National Centre for Seismology said, the first quake with a magnitude of 4.7 hit at 10:42 PM, followed by one measuring 5.5 six minutes later.
  
  The two occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres.
  
  The third quake measuring 4.6 hit at 10:58 PM, followed by the fourth one at 11:20 PM with a magnitude of 5.4.
  
  The third and fourth quakes occurred at the depth of 36 kilometres and 63 kilometres.
  
  There was no immediate report of casualty and damage to properties.
  
  Separately, a quake with a magnitude of 5 hit the Andaman and Nicobar islands at 10:29 PM.

Published date : 20 Jan 2020 05:32PM