Nepal and New Delhi both experience tremors.
Early on Wednesday, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Himalayan area close to Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand along the Nepal border caused severe tremors to be felt throughout north India.
The earthquake occurred at 1.57 a.m. on Wednesday in Nepal, around 90 km east-southeast of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
According to the National Center for Seismology, Nepal was the epicentre. The NCS sent a tweet that read, “Earthquake of Magnitude:6.3, Occurred on 09-11-2022, 01:57:24 IST, Lat: 29.24 & Long: 81.06, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Nepal.”
People were awakened from their sleep by the earthquakes that were felt in Lucknow, Ghaziabad, and the nearby places.
The previous few days have seen a series of smaller earthquakes in the Himalayan area of Uttarakhand and neighbouring Nepal.
The NCS data indicated that the area saw at least two 4.9 and 3.5 magnitude earthquakes late Tuesday night.
On Sunday, an earthquake of 4.5 magnitude rocked Uttarakhand, with the epicentre 17 km to the east-southeast of Uttarkashi.
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