Low-intensity earthquake felt in Karnataka’s Vijayapura, Bagalkot districts
07:15AM Mon 6 Sep, 2021
- Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) officials said that the epicentre of the earthquake was in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district.
The residents of the Vijayapura, Bagalkot cities and surrounding areas rushed out of their homes. Many residents spent the night outside their homes fearing more tremors, stated media reports. The TNIE quoted a resident saying that they experienced tremors twice in 30 minutes which caused them to panic.
The Deputy Commissioner of Vijayapura P Sunilkumar told DH that according to Mines and Geology Department officials, Vijayapura district falls under Zone 2 classified as the low damage risk zone. He assured the public that there was no need to panic and that the public should not pay heed to rumours. He told TNIE that staff of the district administration had been sent to the places where people experienced tremors and that they are in touch with KSNDMC officials. The DH report further stated that tremors and loud sounds are not new phenomena for the villages in Tikota, and Basavana Bagewadi taluks as the residents of Malghan, Masuti, Babanagar villages [of the taluks] keep experiencing vibrations and loud noises from the crust. Geologists from Bengaluru were roped in to study the phenomenon by the district administration. Their inference that the phenomenon was not an earthquake did not help in pacifying anxious villagers, the report stated. (Source: The News Minute)