A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Sunday at a depth of 10 km, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported. This comes days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake devastated the Mandalay region, killing at least 694 people, injuring over 1,670, and prompting Myanmar's m
First C130 landed in Naypyitaw. The NDRF team was received by Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Abhay Thakur and Maung Maung Lynn, Ambassador-at-large, in Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the MEA stated.
A 118-member team from the elite Shatrujeet Brigade Medical Responders, led by Lieutenant Colonel Jagneet Gill, is set to take off for Myanmar shortly, along with essential medical equipment and supplies.
Indians prefer Thailand as one of the best holiday destinations and visit the place in huge numbers. However, as soon as the deadly effects of the quake were felt in the country, they started to return to India.
Speaking to ANI, Mishra said "It occurred in the longest fault in Myanmar, Sagaing Fault. Its length is 1200 km. This fault has generated several earthquakes in the past of magnitude more than 7. This is not the first earthquake with magnitude 7."
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday afternoon, with tremors felt in Bangkok and many parts of Thailand, causing hundreds of people to rush out of swaying buildings in Bangkok as per Thailand local media and eyewitness accounts posted on social media. Several posts on socia
Remy Bossu, Secretary-General of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, said "days, or perhaps, weeks" would be needed to evaluate the series of earthquakes but said that the series of quakes typically occur in the build-up to a larger tremor, as per CNN.
Records from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) showed the quakes were continuing to occur a few minutes apart as of 7am on Tuesday (05:00 GMT), with the largest quake recorded at magnitude 5.1 on Monday afternoon.
Dr Prakash Kumar, Director of CSIR-NGRI spoke to ANI and said, "We have got to know that people felt the tremours lightly. They might have felt it very lightly. Hyderabad is not an earthquake-prone area. We see it as a stable region. It is not very severe, but we haven't recorded quake of th
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan early Sunday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The quake occurred at 4:43 am (IST) at a depth of 160 kilometres, with the epicentre located at Latitude 36.12 N and Longitude 71.16 E. No immediate reports of damage