The tremors, measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale with Haryana's Bahadurgarh as epicentre, occurred at 1:11pm and were felt in most parts of the state and some adjoining areas in Punjab.
There was no major damage reported from Haryana which was jolted by an earthquake of moderate intensity barring minor cracks in old buildings.
The tremors, measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale with Haryana's Bahadurgarh as epicentre, occurred at 1:11 p.m. IST and were felt in most parts of the state and some adjoining areas in Punjab.
Sharp tremors were felt for about ten seconds in parts of Haryana, particularly in areas falling in the NCR region which are close to Bahadurgarh including Rohtak, Jhajjar, Gurgaon, Hisar, Bhiwani, Sonepat and other places.
Some places in Punjab also experienced the tremors, but impact of the earthquake was virtually negligible in Chandigarh.
Superintendent of Police of Jhajjar, Patram Singh, in whose district the town of epicentre falls, said there was no major damage reported from anywhere.
There were reports of minor damage to a shrine in Dujana village where labourers were engaged in some repair work and wall of a house collapsing in Lakaria village in Jhajjar, but Singh said these reports were unconfirmed so far.
Rohtak's Deputy Commissioner, Vikas Gupta said though there were minor cracks in some buildings, particularly, some old structures, there was no other damage caused by the earthquake.
He also dismissed as false reports of damage caused to a school building in Mayna village located on Rohtak-Jhajjar road.
"We sent teams there to check it, but found nothing. Reports to this effect are not true. In fact, we not only got the government high school building in Mayna village checked up, but also two school buildings of private schools were checked, but there was no damage," Gupta told PTI over phone.
Bhiwani's Superintendent of Police, Satish Balan said the "quake was strongly felt, but it has not caused any damage in the district".
"There was great panic, no doubt, but fortunately it did not last long," Balan told PTI.
Sham Sunder, a resident of Rohtak City said that he thought his three-storeyed house, on whose top floor he was having his food at the time earthquake occurred, would collapse.
"I thought if this lasts for another 10 seconds, my house would collapse. My son and a daughter who were in their school also told me later that like other children they came out of their building and there was great panic," he said.
Ritesh Kumar, who works in a MNC in Gurgaon, said he was at the 5th floor at the time of the quake.
"We were preparing to have lunch and all of a sudden there was a strong jolt and all of us rushed out in panic. Luckily, we were all safe and we came to know there were similar scenes of panic in other office buildings in Gurgaon," he said.
Meanwhile, police sources said that there were minor cracks in an outer wall of a school building in Rohtak district.
The sources said that there was a minor crack in the wall of PGIMS, Rohtak's Ranvir Singh OPD building.
Some window panes in a library in MDU, Rohtak, were also broken after the tremors.
In Rohtak's Lakharia village, wall of a residential building was damaged.
A report from Hisar said that six labourers who were engaged in repair work of a wall in a Gaushala were injured, two of them seriously, when the wall collapsed, even though the police maintained that the incident occurred few minutes before earthquake occurred.
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