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Many aftershocks since 6.9 on Richter, the region’s next big one ‘could be 9’ [1]

Since September last year, when an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 rocked Sikkim, scientists have recorded nearly 300 aftershocks in the region and predicted the possibility of a quake up to magnitude

Publication Date: 
14/05/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [3], Earthquakes [4], Sikkim [5], Darjiling (D) [6], Geology [7], Meghalaya [8], Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) [9], Hydroelectricity [10]

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