A 3.1 magnitude earthquake jolts Delhi NCR

Tremors were felt in Delhi NCR at around 4.08 pm on Sunday after an estimated 3.1 magnitude earthquake occurred around Faridabad area, National Center for Seismology said.

The earthquake depth was almost 10 kilo meters.

"Earthquake of Magnitude:3.1, Occurred on 15-10-2023, 16:08:16 IST, Lat: 28.41 & Long: 77.41, Depth: 10 Km ,Location: 9km E of Faridabad, Haryana, India," NCS said on X.


Several people across the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) felt tremors.


Earlier today, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake jolted parts of western Afghanistan which killed two people and injured more than 100.

On October 3, two earthquakes of magnitude 6.2 and 4.6 on the Richter Scale hit Nepal, with tremors felt in large parts of India including the National Capital Region, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported.

India is located in a seismically active region. But with a lot of microearthquakes occurring every day, the stored-up energy gets released, PTI quoted Director O P Mishra of the National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences.

According to experts, if people and institutions strictly comply with the bylaws and codes to build resilient structures, the impact of a large-scale earthquake can be reduced.

They say the resonant frequency of a building can play a critical role in determining the level of damage that it experiences during an earthquake.