Uttarakhand: Earthquake of 3.1 magnitude hits Pithoragarh
A Earthquake of 3.1 magnitude rattled Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district during the early hours of Tuesday, striking around 6.43am with the epicenter situated roughly 5 kilometers below the earth’s surface, as detailed on the National Center for Seismology’s official website.
Preceding this recent tremor, on Monday night at 9.22pm, a 2.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Bageshwar district, occurring just a little more than a fortnight after a 2.8 magnitude quake hit the same district on May 11. Furthermore, earlier in the current month, a 2.6 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Uttarkashi district on May 7.
The region experienced two seismic occurrences the previous month – a 2.8 magnitude quake in the Dehradun district on April 17, and another in the Haridwar district measuring at 3 on the seismic scale.
The Earth Sciences ministry’s nodal agency for tracking seismic activity in the nation is the National Center for Seismology.
The Himalayas are the newest mountain range in the world, dating back around 50 million years. They climb at a rate of about 5 millimeters per year as the Tibetan plate folds beneath the Indian tectonic plate. Uttarakhand has a high seismic activity rate, with the majority of its territory being within Seismic Zones IV and V.