Earthquake in Manipur destroyed imphal 8 dead and 100 injured

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Monday’s earthquake in Manipur, near India’s border with Myanmar, occurred in an area where the India and Eurasia tectonic plates  the slabs of planet that created the highest mountains in the world  collide.

At least six persons, including four women, were killed and more than 100 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Manipur in the early hours of Monday. The government has asked people to remain alert as aftershocks can occur.

There is large scale damage in Imphal with many houses reporting huge cracks. Walls of many building have also collapsed.

The two continental plates are coming together at a rate of 40 millimeters to 50 millimeters a year, producing large numbers of earthquakes that make the region one of the most seismically volatile on Earth, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

On the surface, the boundary between the plates is marked by the foothills of the Sulaiman Range in the west, and the Indo-Burmese Arc in the east and the part of the Himalaya Front in the north of India.

Here are the LIVE updates:

• Manipur government decides to close all schools for a week.
• Another aftershock of 3.4 magnitude felt at 2.30 pm.
• Telecom connectivity more or less normal in Imphal.
• Union power secretary says a team of engineers from Power Grid Corporation will be reaching to Imphal assist the state govt in restoration of power.
• Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju has reached Imphal to take stock of the damage done by earthquake.
• Atleast 8 people have been killed and another 100 injured due to earthquake, reports said
• The injured have been admitted at state government hospital JNIMS in Imphal.
•  Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and his team inspected JNIMS hospital where injured are being treated.
• An aftershock of magnitude 3.6 was felt at about 9:27 am. The epicentre of this earthquake was Tamenglong, Manipur.
• Manipur CM to visit Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal where injured persons are being treated.

                                                                    

The compound wall of Congress MLA N Biren Singh's official residence at Kangla pat collapsed. Singh said that the government is making an assessment of the damages.