An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted Lahaul And Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/earthquake-of-magnitude-45-hits-andaman-and-nicobar-islands-23302302" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">National Center for Seismology</a> informed, reported news agency ANI.
The tremors were felt at 23:20:41, Indian standard time (IST).
According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 kilometres, reported ANI.
"Earthquake of Magnitude:3.4, Occurred on 09-08-2023, 23:20:41 IST, Lat: 32.30 &amp; Long: 78.47, Depth: 5 Km , Location: Lahaul And Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India," read a post on the official `X` handle of NCS.
Further reports are awaited.
Another earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Indonesia on Thursday, the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/uttarakhand-four-low-intensity-tremors-felt-in-pithoragarh-23302287" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">United States Geological Survey</a> (USGS) reported.
It took place around 142 km W of Tual in Indonesia at 07:30:29 (UTC+05:30).
According to the USGS, the depth of the earthquake was registered at 90.5 km and its epicentre was found to be at Latitude: 5.777&deg;S and Longitude: 131.478&deg;E respectively.
No reports of casualties or material damage are known yet.
Notably, Tual is a city in Indonesia`s Maluku Province that is geographically situated within the Kei Islands.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis frequently strike Indonesia, a country of more than 270 million people because of its location on the "Ring of Fire."
The Ring of Fire, or the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
It is a horseshoe-shaped belt about 40,000 km long and about 500 km wide that contains two-thirds of the world`s total volcanoes and 90 per cent of Earth`s earthquakes.
(With inputs from ANI)

An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted Lahaul And Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, National Center for Seismology informed

Himachal Pradesh: Earthquake of magnitude 3.4 hits Lahaul and Spiti

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The tremors were felt at 23:20:41, Indian standard time (IST)

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