There was panic for a few minutes in the Kutch district of Gujarat following a mild tremor on Thursday. The residents of the district felt the tremor at around 9.30 am. However, there was no damage or loss of life.
The Seismological Research Institute Gandhinagar, said the tremor of 3.2 intensity on the Richter Scale was felt at around 9.36 am and its epicentre was 20 km North-North-East from Dudhai area of the district.
Gujarat which witnessed massive loss of human lives as well as property in 2001following a devastating earthquake has witnessed as many as 65 tremors this year. Most of the time in 2016, the epicentre of these tremors remained in the western Gujarat region of Saurashtra and Kutch. luckily no loss of life was reported due to the tremors throughout the year.
The strongest among them was of 4.7 intensity felt on July 17, 2016. The epicentre of that tremor was at 24 km North-North West in Surat in South Gujarat. One person was injured in a panic driven jump from the second floor of a building in Palitana town Bhavnagar district on that day.