Epicentre in Tripura: One dead, 5 injured as 5.7 magnitude quake rocks Northeast

While the tremor was felt strongly in Tripura, reports of the quake being felt have also come in from Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam. Sources in Agartala said that as many as 60 houses were reportedly damaged in Dhalai. The number of properties damaged is likely to go up after detailed reports are available. One bridge also developed cracks in Dhalai district, reports said.

The temblor with a depth of 28 km, which was felt for about five to six seconds and occured at 2.39 pm, has been located at Latitude 24.1 degree North and Longitude 91.1 degree East, an official at the CSO said.

Landslides occurred in a number of places on the remote Chhamanu-Gobindabari Road of Dhalai district. The officer-in-charge of state fire service department in Dhalai and Unakoti districts, Sukumar Debbarma, told PTI that landslides occurred in a number of places in a five-km radius along the Chhamanu-Gobindabari road. Debbarma said a portion of the boundary wall of the fire service office at Unakoti district had collapsed due to the earthquake.

On January 4 last year, an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 on the Richter scale with its epicentre at Noney in Tamenglong district in Manipur had rocked the entire region. At least seven people were killed and more than 100 houses damaged in Manipur.

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