Tremor jolts NE

India’s North Eastern States shook on Sunday morning when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, officials said. The quake was felt at 10.57 am with its epicentre in the Myanmar-India border region, said an official of the Regional Seismological Centre in Shillong. Seven of the North Eastern States — Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur — are considered by seismologists as lying in the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.

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India’s North Eastern States shook on Sunday morning when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, officials said. The quake was felt at 10.57 am with its epicentre in the Myanmar-India border region, said an official of the Regional Seismological Centre in Shillong. Seven of the North Eastern States — Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur — are considered by seismologists as lying in the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.

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