A shallow and strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the Myanmar-India border region early on Friday, India’s National Center for Seismology said.
The quake was felt in Chittagong in Bangladesh and as faraway as Kolkata in eastern India, according to witness accounts posted on European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre’s (EMSC) website and by users on Twitter.
Map of felt reports received so far following the #earthquake M5.8 in Myanmar-India Border Region 41 min ago pic.twitter.com/vrNvjM1RkR
— EMSC (@LastQuake) November 26, 2021
“Very strong,” one such witness posted on EMSC from Chittagong, which is about 184 km west of the quake’s epicentre.
EMSC pegged the temblor’s magnitude at 5.8, after having earlier given it a magnitude of 6.0 and said the epicentre was about 126 km southeast of Aizawl in northeastern India.
M5.8 #earthquake (#भूकंप) strikes 136 km SE of #Āīzawl (#India) 18 min ago. Updated map of its effects: pic.twitter.com/c5pb5wvZVa
— EMSC (@LastQuake) November 26, 2021