Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 hits Nicobar Islands
News / Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 hits Nicobar Islands
News - Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 hits Nicobar Islands
According to the Indian Meteorological department, an earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter scale hit Nicobar Islands at 5.30 am today. Earlier in January, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6 hit the seismologically prone Andaman and Nicobar Islands, National Centre for Seismology (NCS) had said. The earthquake hit the region at 8.43 am and its epicentre was Nicobar Islands region.