Earthquake with 5.8 magnitude hits Gujarat

According to the National Center for Seismology, at 8:13 PM today, an earthquake struck 122 kilometers away from the city of Rajkot in Gujarat.

Reports coming in from the NCS indicate that the quake clocked in at 5.8 on the Richter scale.

"Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held an immediate telephone conversation with the Collectors of Rajkot, Kutch and Patan districts following the tremors in the state and got information about the situation there," the Gujarat Chief Minister's Office said.


Meanwhile, an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 struck 90 km east of Katra, Jammu and Kashmir at 8:35 pm today.

These are the latest in a series of earthquakes in the northern region of the country, with a low intensity quake hitting the National Capital Region earlier in the week. The south also saw an earthquake - in the same period - with a magnitude of 4.0 hit the Hampi region in Karnataka.