Bhaderwah: Back-to-back tremors and aftershocks continue to jolt Chenab Valley as the ninth earthquake within a week struck the region at 9 am on Sunday.
After Saturday’s earthquake at 9:55 pm, which had an intensity of 4.4 on the Richter scale, the epicenter of which was located near Bhaderwah town, within 6 hours another tremor was felt at 3.50 am measuring 4.1 sending residents into panic.
The earth again shook although mildly as an aftershock of low intensity of 2.2-magnitude at 9 am.
According to an image shared by the National Centre of Seismology, the epicentre of the earthquake at 3.50 am was 11 km east of Bhaderwah town between Jai Ghati and Alni-gangota in Bhalessa.
The 4.4-magnitude quake was struck at latitude of 32.96 degrees north and longitude of 75.79 with 11 km depth.
ADC Bhaderwah Dilmir Chowdhary told Greater Kashmir that though an alert was sounded across the hilly district of Doda, but no further report of any loss of life, injury, or damage to structures had been reported so far.
“District Magistrate Doda Vishesh Paul Mahajan has already issued an advisory to the people not to enter the structures which have developed cracks and the school authorities have been advised to take classes in open instead of classrooms for the time being,” Chowdhary said.
The first tremor measuring 5.4 rattled the entire Chenab Valley on Tuesday followed by two aftershocks of 4.3 and 2.2 magnitude within 12 hours.
Since then the ground beneath Chenab Valley in general and Bhaderwah in particular continues to shake at regular intervals.
According to the earth sciences experts and National Centre of Seismology, the epicentre of the majority of the earthquakes and aftershocks has been located in or around Bhaderwah.