Another 3.0 earthquake hits Kutch after five strong earthquakes in September

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Earthquakes smaller than 2.5 on the Richter scale are numerous but are not reported online, 7 major earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4.0 occurred in the last one year.

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RAJKOT: Kutch is now becoming a mini Japan when it comes to earthquakes and getting used to earthquakes, Japan has 1500 earthquakes every year that people feel. Earthquake activity continues in Kutch during the monsoon and after 6 strong earthquakes were recorded in September last, the first 3.0 earthquake in October today struck 19 km from Dudhai. 22.2 km from the ground in north-east direction. Deeply arose.

In the last 18 days of September from 12-9 to 30-9, 6 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 to 3.7 were recorded on the ISR seismometers of the state government, in which 5 earthquakes were recorded in Bhachau in Kutch, 2 in Rapar and 1 in Dudhai Panthak. While only one earthquake was recorded at Disa. Apart from this, many minor tremors of less than 2.5 magnitude are likely to be recorded in the state including Saurashtra, but these details are not issued online by the system. And earthquakes of such intensity are often not even felt.

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The Earth is not made up of one continuous crust but rather, crusts joined together and Gujarat is located in a collision zone where the Indo-Australian plate of the Earth is sliding under the Eurasian plate. And Kutch lies between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate where a fault line called the KMF has been active for years.

In about one year from 30-1-2023 to 1-2-2024, a total of 8 earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 4.0 and earthquake tremors were felt in Gujarat, including one in Rajasthan at a distance of 53 km from Vav at the end of Gujarat and The rest were recorded in Khawda, Rapar, Dudhai, Dholavira, etc. areas of Kutch.

It is worth mentioning that earthquakes have been recorded in Gujarat after the devastating earthquake of 2001 AD, but it is necessary to issue statistical data analysis, research etc. details. The earthquakes in Kutch are different from the earlier upscale earthquakes in the districts of Amreli, Gondal, Porbandar, Talala, etc., which are deeper and on fault lines.