6.7 Magnitude Earthquake hits Northeast India; 5 Dead, Over 40 Injured - Page 3

High Alert for North and North-East India :

NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry's disaster management experts have warned of a bigger catastrophe, earthquakes with a
magnitude of 8.2 or greater on the Richter scale which may hit the already ruptured Himalayan region.. . They say quakes with higher intensity than the one that struck Manipur on Monday are likely to rock the region in future. The tectonic shift a series of these recent earthquakes have caused in the region -- Manipur 6.7 (Jan 2016), Nepal 7.3 (May 2015) and Sikkim 6.9 (2011) -- have re-ruptured the plates that had already developed cracks during previous temblors. This has led to conditions which might trigger multiple earthquakes which may go up to 8.0 in magnitude.