Magnitude 3.9 mild earthquake strikes Jammu & Kashmir, epicenter near Srinagar

A mild earthquake hit Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on early Tuesday morning, news agencies reported. The National Center for Seismology later confirmed that the earthquake, which measured a magnitude of 3.9 on the Richter Scale, had its epicenter 15 kilometers north-northeast of Srinagar at a depth of 10 km.

Earlier yesterday, a 2.1-magnitude earthquake had struck Haryana's Gurugram at 1:00 PM, the epicenter for which was 13 kilometers west-northwest of Gurugram. The tremors were felt in Delhi too.

An extremely mild earthquake measuring 1.3 on the Richter Scale hit Delhi at 11:55 am on Sunday (June 7). The tremors had its epicenter at the depth of 5 kilometers at 23 km south of southeast of Rohtak district in Haryana, the National Center for Seismology had said.

Earlier, two earthquakes of magnitude 4.6 and 2.9 were felt in Rohtak in Haryana on May 29.

According to some top geologists of the country, 10 low to moderate intensity tremors, shaking Delhi-NCR in the span of one and a half months indicate that a powerful earthquake could strike India's National Capital in near future.