More than 300 people were killed and thousands injured in one of the worst earthquakes to hit South America
The magnitude of the quake was recorded 4.9 on the Richter scale and its epicenter was Gaumukh, north of Uttarkashi, Met Officials said in Dehra Dun.
The tremor measured about 5.8 on the Richter Scale.
School children also came out of their classrooms as parents started, making frantic calls to schools asking for the safety of their children.
Two tremors rocked Saurashtra, Ahmedabad and Surat in Gujarat. The epicentre was in the Sasan area of Talala taluka of Junagadh district.
An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude on the Richter Scale rocked Sikkim early Tuesday morning, the Met Department said.
Seismologists draw parallels to the quakes that hit the Pacific region, extending from Peru to Banda Sea in the east of Indonesian islands.
The quake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, was experienced at 0737 IST, according to the India Meteorological Department.
There were no reports of any damage or casualty.
'The problem is even after we know that India is an active quake region, we have done so little to prepare for earthquakes,' says Dr V Ramani.
The low intensity quake which lasted just a few seconds had its epicentre 23 km north-west of Gangtok in the north district, the sources said adding, these tremors must have been felt in parts of north Bengal and Assam too.
A slight intensity quake was on Friday felt in many parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale on Wednesday night jolted Delhi, National Capital Region, Chennai and parts of eastern and northern India including West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to properties.
Five people died in Khyber-Pakhtuknkhwa province, while one died in Diamer area of Gilgit-Baltistan region, officials said, adding 28 people were injured in Peshawar.
The quake, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, was recorded at 0808 IST, the meteorological department said.
The quakes were of moderate intensity.
The Centre had issued the warnings across the Indian Ocean after a massive earthquake, measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale, off the Indonesian coast.
Japan's Meteorological Agency has called off the tsunami alert that it had issued in the wake of the massive earthquake.
Ten moderate aftershocks rocked the Nicobar Islands at regular intervals, with the strongest measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, since Thursday night, the Met department said on Friday.
The tremor was recorded at 0947 IST off the west coast of Great Nicobar Islands, the meteorological department said in New Delhi.
Meanwhile, aftershocks of moderate intensity continued to rock the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The government declared a state of disaster in the wake of the calamity as the casualty figures mounted and displaced people in the island's worst affected areas sought shelter in makeshift refugee camps.
The aftershock recorded at 12.58 PM was had its epicentre at a latitude of 34.8 degree north and longitude 73.8 degree east.
No casualties were reported from the quake, likely to be a aftershock from the massive earthquake which shook the region last month, killing 39 people and injured more than 2,000. \n\n
Two low intensity tremors, whose epicentre lay close to Koyna dam in Satara district, shook parts of Maharashtra, including Pune and Mumbai, on Tuesday.
The quake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, but there was no immediate report of death or destruction.
The tremor, whose epicentre was in the Kutch region of the state, struck at 11.51 pm, the Met office in Delhi said.
The quake has hit the same place where a quake triggered the Asian tsunami on December 26.
The quake, which hit west of Kyushu Island at 0723 IST was centred at an 'extremely shallow' depth of 9 km below the ocean floor, measured 7 on the Richter scale.
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