Earthquake of 4.2 magnitude jolts north-central part of Assam

Guwahati. An earthquake of 4.2 magnitude jolted the north-central part of Assam on Sunday morning, an official bulletin said.

A National Center for Seismology report said the quake was recorded at 7:47 am in Udalguri district on the northern bank of Brahmaputra, at a depth of 15 km. The exact location of the epicenter of the earthquake is around 105 km north of Guwahati and 48 km west of Tezpur, near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

People in the neighboring Darrang, Tamulpur, Sonitpur, Kamrup, and Biswanath districts also felt the jolt. Kamrup Metropolitan, Morigaon, and Nagaon on the southern bank of Brahmaputra too felt the tremor.

The earthquake could be felt in some areas of western Arunachal Pradesh as well as eastern Bhutan, the report said. There is no immediate report of any injury to anyone or damage to any property. The Northeastern region falls in the high seismic zone, making earthquakes frequently hit the region.

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