By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: An earthquake of moderate intensity on Wednesday rocked the entire Northeastern region, but there was no report of any injury to people or damage to property.
The quake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, hit the region at around 7.12am with its epicentre being 89 km underneath the earth’s crust along the Indo-Myanmar border, an official with the Upper Shillong Seismological Observatory said.
The tremor created panic among people and even woke up those who were still asleep in the cold winter morning.
Our Guwahati correspondent adds: A senior scientist in the North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat, said the intensity of the earthquake was estimated to be strong near the epi-center while it was moderate away from the epicenter in important places like Guwahati, Imphal and other major cities and urban centres in the region.
Earlier, four more earthquakes of magnitude measured in the range of 3.3-4.4 in the Richter Scale rocked Arunachal Pradesh on January 7 last while another earthquake of 3.1 magnitude rocked Manipur area on the same day, according to information provided by the seismological observatory in the NEIST.