4.2 magnitude earthquake hits Uttarakhand's Chamoli district

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ANI Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India]
Last Updated : Aug 22 2017 | 10:13 PM IST

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale jolted Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Tuesday night at around 8

No losses of lives and properties has been reported yet.

Further details awaited.

Earlier on February 7, a shallow earthquake of 5.8 magnitude hit Uttarakhand.

"The depth of the quake was 33 km and it occurred at 10:33 pm," said J L Gautam, Operations head at the National Seismological Bureau, a unit of Ministry of Earth Sciences.

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First Published: Aug 22 2017 | 10:13 PM IST

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