New Delhi: Four medium intensity tremors with magnitudes ranging between 4.7 and 5.5 hit Jammu and Kashmir in a span of less than two hours on Monday night, the National Centre for Seismology said. The first quake with a magnitude of 4.7 hit at 10:42 pm, followed by one measuring 5.5 six minutes later. The third quake measuring 4.6 hit at 10:58 pm, followed by the fourth one at 11:20 pm with a magnitude of 5.4. Separately, a quake with a magnitude of 5 hit the Andaman and Nicobar islands at 10:29 pm. Jammu and Kashmir and Andaman and Nicobar islands witness high seismological activities.

Source: Mint December 30, 2019 18:45 UTC