Moderate intensity earthquake rocks NE

Shillong: An earthquake of moderate intensity shook Meghalaya, Assam and some other north-east states on Sunday but there was no report of any casualty or damage to property. The quake, which had a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale, hit the region at around 7:51 AM and the epicentre was located 70 km underneath the earth’s crust in Myanmar, officials at the Seismological Survey of India said. (PTI)