Earthquake tremors were felt in Delhi and parts of northern India at around 9.50pm on Friday. Many on social media claimed that “earthquake tremors (were) felt in Delhi-NCR and Jammu Kashmir”.
“Weatherman Navdeep Dahiya” posted on X that the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.9 and was centered on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. However, the official confirmation of the details is awaited.
Meanwhile, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) confirmed the seismic data and said that a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Fayzabad, Afghanistan at 20:42:57 local time — 21:42:57 IST.
An official in Jammu and Kashmir also said the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.9. The epicenter of the earthquake was Afghanistan at latitude 36.398 degrees north latitude and longitude 70.878 degrees east longitude, the official said. The depth of the earthquake was 150 km, he added.
However, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded an earthquake magnitude of 5.8.
Some also reported tremors in Punjab. “I felt a strong shock which lasted for a few seconds,” Chandigarh resident Baldev Chand, who lives in a second-floor flat, told PTI.
Ajay Kumar, who lives on the 11th floor of a housing society in Zirakpur, Punjab, said, “The tremors lasted for a few seconds. We thought we were rushing down, but the tremors stopped soon.”
A local told ANI about the tremors: “The earthquake happened 15 minutes ago. I was cooking when I felt it… I live on the fifth floor and when I was coming down, the earthquake stopped in the meantime…”
Another person told the news wire that she felt her bed shake when the earthquake hit the state capital.
“When the earthquake hit, I was sitting in the room and I felt the bed shaking, and when I looked up, the fan was also shaking. When I came out, I saw that people around me were also scared,” she added.
A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tibet earlier in the day, according to the National Seismological Center.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake also hit Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Friday. The quake was at a depth of 177 km (110 miles), the GFZ said.
