A tremor of 3.1 magnitude hit Gujarat’s Kutch district on Sunday. The tremor struck at 8.38 a.m., with its epicentre 26 km north-northeast (NNE) of Dudhai and a depth of 9.3 km, according to the Gandhinagar-based Institute of Seismological Research (ISR).
No casualties or property damage were reported, according to officials of the Kutch district disaster management unit said.
Kutch, located in a ‘very high seismic zone’, over 300 km from Ahmedabad, witnesses mild tremors regularly.
On August 21 this year, the district recorded a 4.1 magnitude earthquake, with its epicentre near Dholavira, officials earlier said.
The 2001 earthquake in Kutch, according to the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, was India’s third largest and second most destructive earthquake in the last two centuries, killing around 20,000 people.