Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Minor quake recorded on Sikkim-Nepal border


GANGTOK, 11 June: An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale, shook the Sikkim-Nepal border region this morning, the Director of MET, Gangtok, K Premchand informed reporters here today.
Nepal’s  National Seismological Center web portal however reports that the earthquake was of M4.5 intensity. The epicentre was in the Panchthar district of Nepal bordering Sikkim [latitude 27.2 degrees North and longitude 88.3 degrees East]. The earthquake occurred at 10.05 a.m. this morning and was felt in parts of West Sikkim as well.

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