Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland experience tremors following Myanmar's 4.7 magnitude earthquake

Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland experience tremors following Myanmar's 4.7 magnitude earthquake



Tuesday morning, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 struck Myanmar, sending shockwaves through Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, among other places in India.

The National Centre for Seismology reports that the earthquake struck Myanmar at 6.10 am on Tuesday, September 30, about 27 km southeast of Ukhrul in Manipur, quite near the Indian border.

According to the NCS, the precise location of the earthquake was latitude 24.73 N, longitude 94.63 E, and its depth was 15 kilometres.

The site of the earthquake was just 155 km south southeast of Wokha in Nagaland, 159 km southeast of Dimapur in Nagaland, 177 km south of Mokokchung in Nagaland, 171 km northeast of Ngopa in Mizoram, and 193 km northeast of Champhai in Mizoram.

This follows an earthquake of magnitude 3.4 that struck Satara, Maharashtra, on the night between Monday and Tuesday, at approximately 12.09 am on September 30.

The earthquake struck 91 kilometres northwest of Kolhapur and had a depth of 5 km.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.3 struck Tibet at approximately 4.28 am on Tuesday, with a depth of 10 km.

The earthquake was precisely located at latitude 30.19 N and longitude 95.23 E, 227 km north of Pangin in Arunachal Pradesh and 303 km north of Dibrugarh in Assam.

The earthquake in Myanmar occurred nearly three days after a 3.5 magnitude earthquake rocked Bangladesh, another neighbour of India, on Saturday, September 27.

The earthquake was 10 km deep and struck only 89 km east northeast of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, which is extremely near to India.

At 1:57 pm, an earthquake struck Bangladesh, and some areas of West Bengal experienced minor shocks.

Latitude 22.95 N and longitude 89.13 E were the precise coordinates of that earthquake.