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Earthquake Of Magnitude 3.5 Hits Jammu & Kashmir’s Kupwara, Second In 2 Days

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An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 struck Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday afternoon.

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An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 struck Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. (Representative image)

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 struck Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. (Representative image)

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale struck Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday afternoon at 1:41 pm, reported by the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

The quake was located at Kupwara, with a depth of 5 kilometres.

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This is the second earthquake in just two days.

On Wednesday, an earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district.

According to the seismic data released by the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake’s epicentre was located 5 km below the surface in the Doda region.

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