An earthquake of magnitude 4 on the Richter scale has shaken this Monday the capital of India, New Delhi, according to the National Center for Seismology, without, at the moment they have notified figures of deceased or significant material damage.
The earthquake It happened at 5.36 local timewhen most citizens were in their homes.
The earthquake has shaken some homes in the city, one of the most populated in the world.
“Everyone is urged to remain calm and to follow security precautions, staying alert to possible replicas. The authorities are closely following the situation,” said the Prime Minister of India in his profile of X, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
For its part, Delhi’s police are confident that all citizens of the capital will be well and has given an emergency telephone through its X profile.
The epicenter of the earthquake stood in New Delhi itselffive kilometers deep, as detailed by the National Center for the Sixmology of India.
In images disseminated by the PTI agency, it is observed how Citizens left their homes in the capital, some of them with domestic clothes and bewildered by what happened.
In 2023, an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 did not cause victims in northern India, which is part of the area of high seismic activity of southern Asia, in which the indica plate, the European plate and the plaque are in contact Arab; And that we leave frequent in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal; and some areas of China, Iran and Asia Central.
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