{"id":5796,"date":"2026-04-04T02:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:53:25","slug":"earthquake-alert-tremors-felt-in-delhi-epicentre-likely-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake alert: Tremors felt in Delhi. Epicentre likely in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p data-end=\"162\" data-start=\"0\">Earthquake in Delhi-NCR: Strong earthquake tremors jolted Delhi-NCR and several parts of North India tonight, sparking panic as residents rushed out of homes and office buildings.<\/p> <p data-end=\"344\" data-start=\"164\">The tremors were felt around 9:50 pm across multiple cities, including Noida, Chandigarh, Ludhiana in Punjab, and Poonch, Srinagar, and Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, among others.<\/p> <p data-end=\"491\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"346\">People living in high-rise buildings reported that the shaking lasted a few seconds, with several noticing household items rattling and shifting. According to preliminary reports earthquake measuring 6.6 on Richter scale was reported in Afghanistan.<\/p> <p>Residents in multi-story buildings rushed to the stairs, and within no time, large crowds gathered in parks and on the streets outside the societies.<\/p> <div class=\"embedcode\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Earthquake tremors felt in Delhi-NCR and Jammu Kashmir. Residents of J&amp;K, please comment from areas with strong tremors. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 <\/p> <p>\u2014 Royal Singh \ud83e\udd81 (@Royalsinghz3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royalsinghz3\/status\/2040102536879984788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/div> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p>This is the third earthquake to hit Delhi-NCR this year. Previously, two tremors were felt in January.<\/p> <p>The first was a 2.8 magnitude earthquake on January 19, with its epicenter in North Delhi. It was followed by a 3.2 magnitude earthquake on the night of January 30th, with its epicenter approximately 60-80 km northeast of Delhi. However, neither of these tremors caused any damage.<\/p> <\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>earthquake, Delhi-NCR, Noida, Chandigarh, Ludhiana #Earthquake #alert #Tremors #felt #Delhi #Epicentre #Afghanistan1775242405<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthquake in Delhi-NCR: Strong earthquake tremors jolted Delhi-NCR and several parts of North India tonight, sparking panic as residents rushed out of homes and office buildings. The tremors were felt around 9:50 pm across multiple cities, including Noida, Chandigarh, Ludhiana in Punjab, and Poonch, Srinagar, and Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, among others. People living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[21622,1344,21618,622,21617,21616,21621,15859,21619,4924,21620],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-afghanistan","tag-alert","tag-chandigarh","tag-delhi","tag-delhi-ncr","tag-earthquake","tag-epicentre","tag-felt","tag-ludhiana","tag-noida","tag-tremors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}