Minor Earthquake Jolts New Delhi, NCR At Midnight

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Oct, 2015 05:02 PM

Minor tremors were felt in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region areas on Saturday after an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter Scale struck.

The tremors were felt around 1:40 a.m. and remained for a few seconds.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department website the intensity was slight and the epicenter was Delhi-NCR region.

According to police, there were no reports of any damage so far.

"Just checked from Emergency operation centre of Delhi as well as Police control room.. No damage has been reported so far #Earthquake," Deputy Commissioner of Police North Delhi Madhur Verma tweeted.

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