Tremors were felt in Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and nearby cities this morning after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake with its epicentre in the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region was reported.
Some residents in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida tweeted the ground shook for at least 20 seconds. People in Delhi also tweeted they felt the tremor.
“I thought my head is spinning and started to shut my eyes when suddenly I looked at the fan and realised it’s an earthquake. Strong tremors felt for about 25-30 seconds in Noida,” Shashank Singh, a resident of the city neighbouring Delhi, tweeted.