New Delhi: Four earthquakes jolted the Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh on Thursday, March 17, 2022. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) shared the information on Twitter with seismographs highlighting the affected areas.
“Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 occurred on March 17, 2022, 07:11 pm IST on latitude 35.95 and longitude 77.84 with a depth of 10 km located 201 km North of Leh, Ladakh, India,” the NCS tweeted.
Three earthquakes of magnitude 4.2, 3.6, and 3.8 on the Richter scale jolted the Kargil district of Ladakh throughout March 17, 2022.
The NCS informed about the tremblor with a caption, “Earthquake of magnitude 4.2 occurred on March 17, 2022, 12:20 pm IST on latitude 35.94 and longitude 75.65 with a depth of 85 km located 160 km North-Northwest (NNW) of Kargil, Ladakh, India.”
Tremblor of magnitude 3.8 occurred at 02:52 am, and magnitude 3.6 occurred at 3 am in the Kargil district on Thursday, March 17, 2022.
(Avya Mathur)