SRINAGAR: A moderate-intensity earthquake shook the Kashmir Valley on Monday, as people panicked and rushed out of their homes, while doors, windows and household goods rattled.
Although the earthquake measured only 4.8 on the Richter scale, its impact was widespread because its epicentre was in the central Budgam district.
Officials of the disaster management authority said the earthquake occurred at 5.35 a.m.
Its epicentre was in the Budgam district of the Valley. The earthquake shook Kashmir, as the epicentre was in the Valley itself, in Budgam, barely 21 km north of the capital city, Srinagar.