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4.6-magnitude quake jolts Indian-controlled Kashmir

30 April 2013 18:42 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Feeble shocks of earthquake Tuesday shook Indian-controlled Kashmir and its adjoining areas, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

According to officials in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, an earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale struck at 3:11 p.m. local time."The epicenter of the earthquake was 17 kilometers east of Doda town, located at 33.13 degrees north latitude and 75.74 degrees east longitude," said an official at Meteorological Department's control room in Srinagar.

The earthquake was felt throughout Kashmir.

Geologists say Indian-controlled Kashmir is located in a zone of high seismic activity.

Srinagar falls in Seismic Zone-V and other parts of Indian- controlled Kashmir in Seismic Zone IV.

A high intensity quake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale with its epicenter in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir shook the region on Oct. 8, 2005, causing large scale destruction and killing 80,000 people.