Earthquake of magnitude 3.3 hits Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang
The Hindu
On July 22, an earthquake of magnitude 3.3 hit Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. NCS reported it occurred at 6.56 am at a depth of 5 km. A day earlier, three earthquakes occurred in Jaipur, Rajasthan in 30 mins. First quake of 4.4 at 4.09 am, second of 3.1 at 4.22 am & third of 3.4 at 4.25 am, all at 10 km depth.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.3 on the Richter scale hit Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang on Saturday, July 22, 2023 morning, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).
The earthquake occurred at 6.56 am. According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km.
A day earlier on July 21, three earthquakes were felt in Rajasthan's Jaipur in a span of half an hour. The latest earthquake of magnitude 3.4 occurred at around 4.25 am, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) reported.
According to the NCS, it occurred at a depth of 10 km .While the first quake of magnitude 4.4 was felt at 4.09 am at a depth of 10 km, the second one of magnitude 3.1 was felt at 4.22 am at a depth of 5 km.
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