Delhi and its surrounding regions were jolted by 10 earthquakes between June 16 and July 22. The strongest quake was on July 3 with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in Gurugram, Haryana. Similarly, more than 10 earthquakes occurred between April 10 and May 29, which led many media outlets and the public to speculate that the recent seismic activity was a sign that a major earthquake was in the offing. A series of small earthquakes known as foreshocks can lead to a larger quake, but this can be known only after the big earthquake has occurred, according to the United States Geological Survey (usgs).
Earthquakes usually occur along faults or fault lines, which are fractures between rocks and can range from a few millimetres to thousands of kilometres. During an earthquake, the rock on one side slips with respect to the other in a short span of time generating seismic waves which then travel to the surface causing destruction. The place under the Earth’s surface where the slip takes place is known as the epicentre. The largest of these faults are formed along the boundaries of tectonic plates which are the major divisions in the Earth’s crust.
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