Naypyidaw: An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook Myanmar close to the India border on Tuesday morning, with tremors reported in Manipur, Nagaland, and Assam.

The National Center for Seismology (NCS) confirmed that the quake struck at 6.10 am, with its epicentre located about 27 km southeast of Ukhrul in Manipur, at a depth of 15 km.

The coordinates of the epicentre were recorded at latitude 24.73 N and longitude 94.63 E. The location was approximately 155 km south-southeast of Nagaland’s Wokha, 159 km southeast of Dimapur, 177 km south of Mokokchung, 171 km northeast of Mizoram’s Ngopa, and 193 km northeast of Champhai.

The Myanmar tremor followed a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in Maharashtra’s Satara district, which occurred at 12.09 am at a shallow depth of 5 km, about 91 km northwest of Kolhapur. Earlier in the morning, at 4.28 am, a separate magnitude 3.3 quake was recorded in Tibet, with its epicentre 227 km north of Arunachal Pradesh’s Pangin and 303 km north of Assam’s Dibrugarh, at a depth of 10 km.