Light tremor in North Gujarat
July 19, 2016
Gandhinagar:
Two days after a medium intensity earthquake jolted parts of South Gujarat and Saurashtra, another tremor, though of a lighter intensity, hit North Gujarat in the wee hours today.
However no loss of life or property has been reported.
According to the Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar the single tremor of 3.4 intensity on the Richter scale with its epicenter 37 km East North West of Vav in Banskantha district was felt at 0245 am this morning. As most people were sleeping at that time and it was a very light one, only few could feel it.
Earlier on July 17, one person was injured in a panic driven jump from the second floor of a building in Palitana town Bhavnagar district when a medium intensity earthquake of 4.7 intensity centered 24 km NNW of Surat hit parts of South Gujarat and Saurashtra.
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