Fresh quake hits NE India
Agartala/Aizawl: Fresh earthquake rocked the entire northeastern India and also the adjoining areas on Sunday, an Met official said.
However, there are no immediate report of loss of life or properties from anywhere in the region, comprising eight states.
“A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit most parts of northeastern states and Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh,” Tripura meteorological department director Dilip Saha told the reporters here on Sunday in Agartala.
“The earthquake occurred at 12.39 p.m. Reports of any loss of life and property are yet to be received,” he added.
Disaster management control rooms of Tripura, Mizora m and other states in mountainous northeast said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property.
The Met Office said the epicentre of the fresh earthquake was also in Nepal.
“The tremors were also felt in most of the eastern states, Bangladesh and Myanmar,” the official said.
The northeastern region, comprising eight hilly states, is considered the sixth major earthquake-prone belt (zone five) in the world.
Meanwhile, in Tripura, a 35-year-old woman died of heart attack in Tripura.
The 35-year-old woman reportedly died of heart attack after she panicked during the earthquake in Tripura, an official said here on Sunday.
“Krishna Sinha became frightened during the earthquake on Saturday. She suffered cardiac arrest at her home in Betchara village in Unakoti district (Tripura).
She was shifted to a hospital where she died at night,” said an official of the disaster management control room.
The official said several buildings, mostly offices, were affected due to the earthquake and cracks were visible in many houses across Tripura.
Over 1,800 people have died so far in Nepal after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Himalayan country on Saturday.
As many as 65 people from Assam are yet to be traced in Nepal, while 19 others have already returned to India safely and another six have been confirmed to be safe.
Terror of the quake continued to reverberate across the state with another quake rocking Assam this afternoon, following aftershocks yesterday.
No damage of life or property was reported in the moderate intensity quake, tremors of which were felt at 1235 hrs.
As per reports compiled from family sources of people present in Nepal when the devastating earthquake struck yesterday, 90 people from the state were in the Himalayan nation, Assam State Disaster Management authorities said here today.
Out of these 90, 59 were tourists, four were working in a cement factory and the rest were for medical treatment.
Nineteen people from Assam have been brought back to New Delhi last night and they will return home shortly. Another six have established contact with us, including a family from Morigaon district, and they will be returning by tomorrow, government sources said.
The whereabouts of the rest are not known exactly now, but we refrain from terming them as ordinary circumstances arising in Nepal after the earthquake, they may have been unable to contact family or authorities yet, the sources added.
All 11 members of a mountaineering team from the state, on a mission to scale the Mount Everest, were safe. The state government has already opened several helpline numbers for aid of the family members of those stranded in Nepal.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who left for a pre-scheduled foreign trip this morning, has ordered the chief secretary to oversee all arrangements for rescue and bringing back people to the state from Nepal. (IANS/UNI)