Tremors of the magnitude-4.5 earthquake were felt for some seconds in several parts of the Himachal Pradesh at 11.20 pm on Saturday. The epicentre of the quake, which was mild and was in Kangra district.
Earlier, a moderate intensity earthquake of magnitude 5 hit the State on July 9. At that time its epicentre was on the border of districts of Chamba and lahaul-Spiti, bordering Jammu and Kashmir.
Before that, the State was rocked by low intensity earthquakes four times between June 5 and 6. Himachal Pradesh had witnessed the most devastating earthquake in 1905 in the Kangra Valley, in which more than 20,000 people were killed.