An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter Scale hit Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba region at around 12:17 pm on Tuesday, April 28.
The jolt was felt in parts of Kangra district, but there were no loss of life or damage to property reported from Chamba or Kangra.
The state witnesses dozens of mild earthquakes every year because of its its geographical location. Earthquakes have been a regular feature of the entire Himalayan system.Earlier this month on April 6, the earthquake of 3.1 magnitude was also reported in Chamba.
Not just in India, reports of earthquakes also come from various parts of the world. Few days back, a powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Japan.
On 25th April, Nepal marked the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake with officials taking stock of remaining reconstruction works even as Prime Minister K P Oli blamed the novel coronavirus outbreak for delaying restoration efforts.
A tremor measuring 7.8 hit Nepal’s Gorkha district on April 25, 2015, claiming over 9,000 lives and damaged around 5,00,000 buildings.
