Wednesday night at 8:57, residents of the nation's capital region (Delhi-NCR) felt a powerful quake.
The early reports said that the earthquake's epicentre was in Nepal and that it registered as a 5.1 on the Ritcher scale. At 8:57 p.m., people in the nation's capital and surrounding regions felt the tremors.
Several people in Delhi who were awake and either inside or outside felt the strong tremors. There was a widespread reaction on social media in the form of videos showing people's homes shaking.
This is the second earthquake to shake the Delhi-National Capital Region area in the last week. The nation's capital was shaken for roughly 10 seconds by an earthquake on September 9 at about 2 am in the morning.
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