Srinagar: A light-intensity earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale occurred in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday although no report of any casualty or damage to property was received from anywhere, authorities said.
Data released by the National Center for Seismology said that an earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale occurred in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday at 8:47 p.m.
The coordinates of the earthquake are Latitude 34.28 degrees north and Longitude 74 degrees east.
It occurred 10 km inside the earth and its epicentre was in the Kupwara area of Jammu and Kashmir.
Although no human casualties have been reported during the Chenab Valley earthquakes so far, still there have been incidents of the earth caving in causing irreparable damage to homes and buildings.