Disaster Report: M 5.2 Moderate Earthquake Strikes Haryana - Delhi Region, India Today. The Epicenter Is Just 48 km far From New Delhi.
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According to the Indian Meteorological Department, this was the 19th quake in the country this year so far and third this month alone.
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Roof of a school building in Rohtak, Haryana collapsed. Several students injured
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Parveen Chalia from Bhahdurgarh Haryana (epicenter area) writes Disaster Report through Felt Report Form as, "It was very scary. It made a sound dhak..dhak..dhak. I first thought maybe something fell on the floor in my room. House was shaking..Feel like everything is trembling till now!"
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Damage report are coming in with preliminary as 7 people injured in Uklana in Haryana
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-The epicenter of the quake was Bahadurgarh near Delhi-Haryana border
-Office buildings in Gurgaon in Haryana was evacuated immediately
-According to the Seismic Zone Mapping done by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Delhi is among 30 cities in the country falling in zone IV, which is defined as a severe intensity seismic zone.
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Arvind Kumar Sood from New Friend's Colony, Okhla Station, shares his experience to Disaster Report (using Felt Report Form) as, "While I was busy having my lunch on my chair, it started giving me jerk.The intensity of jerk was not that severe, but I could immediately make up that it was a tremor. I also had similar view of my college who too was having his lunch.We could gauge the intensity as more than 4 on Richer scale. I think there would not be any damage to property and life"
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The earthquake tremor was felt as far as Jaipur, Rajasthan
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A portion of a school's roof collapsed in Rohtak due to the earthquake
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The earthquake tremor was felt in Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon. NO DAMAGE REPORTED
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The tremor was felt about 15-20 seconds
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The people of Delhi reacted immediately after the quake. India seismological center updated the information about 10 minutes after the tremor was first
M 5.2 shallow moderate earthquake strikes Haryana - Delhi Region, India (@ 19 km depth) today with epicenter located 8 km NW Alipur. 07:41 UTC (local time Monday, March 05, 2012 at 01:11 PM @ epicenter)
Epicenter Location
22 km ESE of Rohtak, Haryana, India
46 km WNW of Delhi, Delhi, India
48 km WNW of NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
67 km SSW of Panipat, Haryana, India
NDTV writes, Strong tremors were felt in Delhi and its surrounding areas at 1.10 pm today. In South Delhi's Greater Kailash Part One, where the NDTV studio is located, the building could be felt shaking. Viewers in Gurgaon also said that they could feel the tremors. However, there were no reports of any casualty or damage. No aftershocks were reported.
ReplyDeleteInitial reports placed the earthquake's magnitude between 4.9 and 5.2 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was reportedly Bahadurgarh in Haryana. In Delhi, some cellphone networks went down for a bit.