An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale hit the Yuksom town of Sikkim on Monday early morning, National Center for Seismology informed. The earthquake took place at around 4.15 am at a depth of 10 kilometres from 70 km north-west of Yuksom.
“Earthquake of Magnitude:4.3, Occurred on 13-02-2023, 04:15:04 IST, Lat: 27.81 & Long: 87.71, Depth: 10 Km, Location: 70 km NW of Yuksom, Sikkim, India,” the NCS informed in a tweet.
Earlier 18 September 2011 6.8 magnitude on Richter scale earthquake on the Sikkim-Nepal border has wreaked havoc in the Himalayan country and the Indian state, and scientists then said the likelihood of a much greater earthquake in north India remains. Auth that period 118 people have been killed in Sikkim, West Bengal and Bihar as resultant of the quake.
ndia’s then power ministry has asked seismic experts from the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee (IIT-R) to conduct earthquake impact studies at the dam sites of state-owned NHPC Ltd and North Eastern Electric Power Corp. Ltd (Neepco).
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