20 Earthquakes Struck Northeast in December 2024

Staff Reporter

Guwahati: A total of 20 earthquakes occurred in the Northeastern region, out of a total of 44 quakes that occurred within Indian territory in December 2024. Of the 20 in NE, 5 earthquakes were recorded in Assam, while 6 quakes were recorded in Manipur. Significantly, Manipur recorded the highest number of quakes in the country in the month of December in the past year.

This was revealed in a recent report on Real Time Earthquake Location for the month of December 2024, released by the National Center for Seismology under the central Ministry of Earth Sciences.

According to the report, the National Center for Seismology maintains a National Seismological Network of 166 stations, each having state-of-the-art equipment and spreading all across the country. Using these stations, during the period December 1-31, 2024, a total number of 129 earthquakes have been located and disseminated from the center, out of which 121 earthquakes occurred in India and its neighbourhood region bounded by the coordinates 0°-40°N & 60°-100°E.

During the period, the majority of earthquakes within India and its neighbouring region, bounded by the coordinates 0°-40°N & 60°-100°E, were located in the Hindu Kush region, North India (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand), and Northeast India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, and Tripura).

Moreover, few earthquakes of smaller magnitudes were also reported in the northern part of the country (Sonipat in Haryana), western (Kachchh in Gujarat), southern (Mulugu and Mahabubnagar in Telangana), central (Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh), and eastern (Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh; Kalahandi and Nayagarh in Odisha) parts of the country. Seventeen earthquakes of smaller magnitude (M < 3.0), comprising 13% of all earthquakes, occurred during December 1 to 31, 2024.

Out of a total of 129 earthquakes, 50% and 29% of earthquakes occurred in the magnitude range of 3.0-3.9 and 4.0-4.9, respectively, whereas three earthquakes in the magnitude range of 5.0-5.9 occurred during the period, of which two were inside the grid of 0°-40°N & 60°-100°E. All five earthquakes in the magnitude range of 6.0-6.9 and two earthquakes in the magnitude range of 7.0-7.9 occurred outside the grid of 0°-40°N & 60°-100°E.

A total of 44 earthquakes occurred within Indian territory, of which 6 earthquakes occurred in Manipur and 5 each in Assam and Uttarakhand during the period from December 1 to 31, 2024. Out of 44 earthquakes, 17 and 20 earthquakes occurred in the North and North-East regions, respectively. There was sparse activity in the central, western, and southern parts of the country during the period mentioned.

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