Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 15: An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 on the Richter scale hit 263 km south-south-east of Hotan, China on Wednesday.
Hotan is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Western China.
Accoding to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), thee earthquake occurred at 02:32:21 (UTC+05:30) and hit Hotan, China on Wednesday, at a depth of 17 km. The earthquake’s epicentre was 35.053°N and 81.395°E, respectively. However, no casualty or damage to property has been reported so far.
Earlier on Tuesday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter Scale hit 443 km north of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea at 06:19 am IST.
On March 13, an earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale hit the Leh district of Ladakh on Monday at 10.52 am IST.
