3.6 - Magnitude Earthquake hits Ladakh

Kabilan Kempraj -


 

An earthquake of 3.6-magnitude hit Ladakh on Saturday morning.

According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake struck the Union Territory at 5:11 am.

However, there were no immediate reports of any loss of life or damage to property.

Earlier, an earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale hit Ladakh on February 18. The depth of the earthquake was recorded to be 200 kilometres, the National Center for Seismology stated.

Thank You!!!!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

At Dubai airport, travellers' eyes become their passports

Kabilan Kempraj -
Image
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning. On Sunday, travelers stepped up to an iris scanner after checking in, gave it a good look and breezed through passport control within seconds. Gone were the days of paper tickets or unwieldy phone apps.  Now, the key east-west transit hub is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction — an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country. It’s the latest artificial intelligence program the United Arab Emirates has launched amid the surging coronavirus pandemic, contact-less technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. But the efforts also have renewed questions about mass surveillance i
Read more