The massive earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit south-western Pakistan at midnight on Tuesday caused mild tremors at several places in Gujarat's Kutch district.
The massive earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit south-western Pakistan at midnight on Tuesday caused mild tremors at several places in Gujarat's Kutch district, including the district headquarters Bhuj.
However, in Bhuj, there are not many people who remember feeling the tremors as nearly everybody was asleep at the time.
"Even we did not feel the tremors," an official of the Bhuj seismological office told DNA on Wednesday morning. "We came to know of it only when we saw it recorded on our Global Seismographic Network. Then we confirmed it from our headquarters in Delhi." The official said on the condition of anonymity that the tremors felt in Kutch could not be called an aftershock.
A government official, Bhaskar Leuva, said he was awake when the tremors were recorded in Bhuj. "I had gone to answer nature's call," he said. "But I did not notice or feel any tremors. I came to know about it when I heard people talking about it on the basis of TV news reports."
Ketty and Saina, two young researchers from the US who have been here for their projects for the past few months, also denied experiencing the tremors. "We are associated with local organizations which had done a lot of rehabilitation work in Kutch after the quake of 2001. So we have an idea what an earthquake feels like," they said.
Experts say that people of Kutch are so familiar with 'tremors and aftershocks' that even the illiterate are able to recognise them. After the devastating earthquake of 2001, more than 1,500 tremors of different intensity have been felt in Kutch over the last 10 years.
The people here are not scared by aftershocks but they are worried about another major quake striking the region as the 2001 quake had also occurred in January on Republic Day.
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