Mild tremors in city, epicentre in Punjabi Bagh; no damage reported

New Delhi: Mild tremors were felt across the capital on Sunday afternoon as a low-intensity earthquake measuring 2.1 on the Richter scale struck Delhi. The epicentre of the earthquake was found to be Punjabi Bagh, with the earthquake occurring at a depth of 7 kilometres below the earth’s surface, officials said. No damage to any property or loss of life was reported.
J L Gautam from the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said the earthquake struck Delhi at 12:02 pm, at a latitude of 28.67 N and longitude of 77.14 E.“It measured 2.1 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was found to be Punjabi Bagh in West Delhi. The earthquake was mild,” said Gautam.
While it is not common to see earthquakes across the capital, the frequency of these mild earthquakes has increased in the region since last year. From April 12, 2020, a number of mild earthquakes were recorded last year, with their epicentre in Delhi or parts of the NCR. Since the start of the year, a total of nine earthquakes have been recorded in the Delhi region, with their magnitude ranging between 1.8 and 2.9 and were mostly located in west Delhi, south-west Delhi, Rohtak, Sonipat, Baghpat, Bahadurgarh and Ghaziabad.
Earlier this year, NCS also announced that it had deployed additional earthquake recording instruments in the region in order to closely monitor seismic activity.