A medium-intensity earthquake shook Delhi-NCR on Sunday at 5.45 pm. The 3.5 magnitude tremor with epicentre located at Latitude 28.7N and Longitude 77.2E at a depth of 8 kilometre in Northeast Delhi prompted panic-stricken people to rush out of their homes.
“The earthquake’s epicentre was in Wazirabad in Northeast Delhi at the depth of 8 kilometres,” said JL Gautam, Head (Operations), National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The tremors were also felt in neighbouring Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. There was no immediate report of any damage. An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 had hit the national capital in 2004.
Another quake of magnitude 3.4 was recorded in the city in 2001.
Soon after the earthquake, humour took the stage on social media with people. Joining other tweeples was Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
“Wasn’t coronavirus enough that an earthquake had to occur too,” Sisodia tweeted in Hindi.