Mizoram Hit By 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake; Houses Damaged, Cracks On Roads
The quake additionally brought about cracks on highways and roads at a number of puts, legit added.
Aizawl:
An earthquake of five.three magnitude hit Mizoram within the early hours of Monday, inflicting injury to homes and cracks on roads at a number of puts, an legit stated.
No casualties had been reported, the legit of the state Geology and Mineral Useful resource Division stated.
Quoting the Nationwide Centre for Seismology, he stated the earthquake took place at four.10 am and the epicentre was once at Zokhawthar in Champhai district at the India-Myanmar border.
The tremors have been felt in numerous portions of the state, together with state capital Aizawl, he stated.
The intensity of the quake was once 20 km whilst the coordinates of the epicentre are 23.22 (latitude) and 93.24 (longitude), it stated.
A number of homes and structures, together with a church at Zokhawthar in Khawbunga, in Champhai district had been in part broken because of the quake, he stated.
The quake additionally brought about cracks on highways and roads at a number of puts, he added.
The total extent of the wear and tear is but to be ascertained, the legit stated.
The intensity of the quake was once 20 km whilst the coordinates of the epicentre are 23.22 (latitude) and 93.24 (longitude), it stated.
An earthquake of five.1 magnitude additionally hit the state on Sunday round four.10 pm, and any other of four.6 magnitude on June 18.
