According to the agency, the earthquake’s epicentre was 126 km southeast of Port Blair.
The National Centre for Seismology detected a 5.9-magnitude earthquake on Saturday morning in the vicinity of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
According to the agency, the earthquake’s epicentre was 126 km southeast (SE) of Port Blair. The earthquake occurred at 12:53 AM IST, 69 kilometres below the earth’s surface.
On the night between Thursday and Friday, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake was felt 112 kilometres southeast of Portblair on the Andaman and Nicobar island, according to the National Centre for Seismology.
At 02:56:12 Indian Standard Time (IST), there were earthquakes.
The depth of the earthquake, according to NCS, was 10 km.
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An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 occurred on August 11, 2024, at 2:56:12 IST, in latitude 10.66 and longitude 93.04, at a location 112 kilometres southeast of Portblair, Andaman and Nicobar Island, India, according to a tweet from NCS.
The Andaman and Nicobar island was shaken earlier on Monday by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5, according to the National Centre for Seismology.
Indian Standard Time (IST) 12:53:24 was when the earthquake struck the islands.
The earthquake, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), happened at a depth of 10 kilometres.
Earlier Earthquake at Andaman and Nicobar islands:
The Andaman Islands of India experienced the 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake on August 11 at 19:55 UTC.[1] The region’s greatest earthquake since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004 had a magnitude of 7.5.
The tsunami watch that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre had issued for India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Thailand was subsequently revoked.
While there were reports of minor structure damage, there were no known fatalities or injuries.
Around 228,000 people were killed by a tsunami in 2004 due to a large earthquake in the Indian Ocean, the bulk of whom were in the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern point of Sumatra island.
Source: The Statesman
Officials in the Andaman and Nicobar islands claimed there was no immediate word of any fatalities or property damage.
In the previous earthquakes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, there is no loss of life reported.
National Centre for Seismology:
The office does seismological analysis and earthquake monitoring. It specifically offers reports on earthquake hazards and earthquake surveillance to governmental organisations.
In order to better efficiently track and study seismological activity, the India Meteorological Department’s Seismology Division and Earthquake Risk Evaluation Centre combined with NCS in August 2014.
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The Center’s mission is to advance seismological research and monitoring in order to better understand earthquake processes and their repercussions.
Various user organisations, such as insurance firms, industrial units, power houses, river valley projects, etc., can purchase earthquake data and seismicity reports for certain regions from NCS. Additionally, seismological data and information on earthquakes are sent to relief organisations.
The majority of earthquakes happen at plate boundaries, although some destructive earthquakes have also happened within plate interiors.
All intrigued state and federal government offices are informed of the earthquake rules by short message service (SMS), fax, or email. An app called IndiaQuake was created to provide individuals access to this information instantly.
Seismological research:
In order to estimate shallow and deep crustal structures in various tectonic domains of the India land mass, NCS is actively engaged in seismological research.
This study offers information on the mechanisms that cause earthquakes to occur in the Himalayas, the Burma plate, and the Sumatra trench, as well as measures of crustal deformation in the plate-boundary and plate-interior areas.
A smartphone application called IndiaQuake offered up-to-the-minute details on the characteristics of earthquakes occuring in India. These factors included magnitude, timing, and place.
It was last revised on January 1, 2018.
