Another low-intensity tremor recorded in Karnataka’s Chickballapur

Just a day after a tremor was recorded in Bengaluru Rural, another tremor of magnitude 2.9 was recorded in Chickballapur district in the early hours of Saturday (October 24), the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) said. 

According to the KSNDMC, the intensity was low, and local vibrations could have been felt within a radius of 20-30 km from the epicentre. The Centre said the tremor was not expected to cause harm to the local community.  

The tremor was recorded at 3:29 a.m., with its epicentre 2 km east of Somasettyhalli village in Taridalu Gram Panchayat, Gouribidanur taluk, at a depth of 5 km. The epicentre was around 33 km northwest of Chickballapur city. 

The epicentre falls in Seismic Zone II, and the region has no structural discontinuities, the KSNDMC’s said, assuring the public that there was no need for panic, given the low magnitude and intensity. 

On Friday (October 23), a tremor of magnitude 3.0 was recorded at 9:01 a.m in Timmojanahalli in Doddaballapur Taluk, Bengaluru Rural.