Four earthquakes rattle Delhi-NCR within three hours; no casualties

Zee Media Bureau New Delhi: People in the national capital region were jolted out of sleep early on Tuesday after four slight-intensity quakes were felt within a span of three hours. The first tremor of 3.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale occurred at 12:41 am followed by the second earthquake of 3.3 magnitude at around 1.41 am. Hundreds of panicked people in Delhi and adjoining cities of Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad rushed out of their homes after the first quake and most were still out in the open when tremors were felt for the second time. Also Read: Earthquakes: Why Delhi is a high risk zone? Later two more quakes of 2.5 and 2.8 magnitude intensity followed at 1.55 and 3.40 am respectively. The tremors lasted for three to four seconds. While the epicentre of the first quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres below the ground near Sainik Farms area in South Delhi, the second was centred south-east of Manesar near Gurgaon in Haryana. Delhi lies in seismic zone 4. Twitter was also abuzz with activity on the Delhi earthquake.

In Rajasthan felt the earthquake in Delhi via @TwitterIndia :-) The world is increasingly looking more like '@'

— Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) November 12, 2013

Tremors! Earthquake in Delhi. Lasted like a grind for a many seconds

— Tarun Shukla (@shukla_tarun) November 11, 2013

Mother of a tremor just now. #Earthquake #Delhi #Noida— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) November 11, 2013

Is it me, or did I just feel earthquake tremors (in #Delhi)..— Ayush Das (@ayush_d) November 11, 2013

Despite being awake till 1 am never felt the earthquake shocks in Delhi. May be low intensity and central Delhi was away from its centre.

— S Irfan Habib (@irfhabib) November 12, 2013

T 1291 -The earthquake in Delhi is so scary .. been in one many years ago .. its like 1000 jets taking off under you ! The whole city shakes— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 12, 2013