Chennai: Tremor triggered by an underwater earthquake intensity was crunching Chennai on Tuesday afternoon, leaving residents of several buildings that ran out for safety.
There is no tsunami warning released and no damage to the property, but the wave of excitement spreads and regulates social media.
The National Center for Seismology (NCS) said the epicenter, which measures 5.1 on the Richter scale and was hit at 12.35 a night, was at a depth of 10 km in the Bengal 320km Eastland of Chennai Bay and 296km southeast Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
Light tremors last a few seconds felt in areas such as Adyar, Besant Nagar, Alwarpet, Anna Nagar, Taramani, and Poonamallee.
Many bring social media to ask whether the earthquake has been hit around Chennai.
“Feeling a light tremor in Perungudi, Chennai a while ago …
I thought I was sleepy but not,” a user tweeted.
In Nungambakkam, Urbaser Sumeet employees rushed out of their office building.
“I was working on my computer when my desk began to vibrate.
I froze and empty for a while.
Our admin officials immediately asked us to leave the building.
We waited outside our office for 30 minutes before continuing the work,” said M Abirami, an employee.
But Mahmood Sait, CEO of a company that was meeting in the same building, did not feel the tremor.
“I was on the first floor.
My colleague on the fourth floor felt it.” Z Ashraf from Saidapet said his 53-year-old mother who lived on the 10th floor of an apartment complex in Saidapet felt a tremor for a few seconds.
“I didn’t feel anything.
But I called my mother after I saw the news on TV.
All the houses from the 7th floor to 10 felt the vibration quite clearly, while not on the floor below knew there was a tremor,” he said.
In 2002, after the Bhuj earthquake, Chennai, along with Coimbatore, was reclassified as a city III seismic zone, but the area where the earthquake was on Tuesday originated, an official at NCS 24×7 earthquake monitoring center said, not an active earthquake zone.
“There is no earthquake zone in the bengal bay section, but it can be caused by local error activation.
This is the first earthquake in the region.
There are no aftershocks.
There is no tsunami,” he said.
Experts say while the earthquake at a depth of 10km can cause the tsunami, the magnitude of the earthquake Tuesday is not strong enough to trigger a tsunami wave.
Prof.
N Venkatanathan from the Literature Deemed University based in Thanjavur, an expert, told TII it could be pall due to increased tectonic activity in neighboring and Nicobar countries or the Sumatra region.
“…
But we have to wait 15 to 30 days to get a clear picture,” he said.