<p>Shimla/Chandigarh: Tremors were felt in parts of north India as a 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit Chamba district in the Himalayan state of <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/himachal-pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a> on Thursday.</p><p>Communication network has been affected in villages near the earthquake's epicenter Pangi and teams have been dispatched to the area, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue and Disaster) Onkar Sharma told <em>PTI</em>.</p><p>Officials said that as communication is affected, reports on damages or casualty, if any, are yet to be received.</p><p>The earthquake struck at 9.34 pm and occurred at a depth of 10 km in Pangi, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS) and officials in Shimla.</p><p>Chamba, around 370 km from the Himachal Pradesh capital, falls in the "very high damage risk" seismic zone five of the Himalayan region.</p><p>A 7.8-magnitude earthquake on this day in 1905 in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra had led to large-scale death and destruction, and according to NCS records, more than 20,000 people had died in the disaster in the Western Himalayas.</p><p>More than one lakh buildings in Dharamshala, Kangra, Mcleodganj and nearby areas were damaged and about 53,000 domestic animals had died in the 1905 earthquake.</p><p>Jolts of the Thursday earthquake, according to Sharma, were felt for a "long duration" in areas in Chamba, particularly those near epicentre Pangi.</p><p>On September 12, 1951, a 6-magnitude earthquake had struck the Chamba-Udhampur area on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. The area witnessed a earthquake of the same magnitude on June 17, 1962, according to records.</p><p>In 2004, Himachal Pradesh's Bharmaur area was struck by a 5.1-magnitude earthquake.</p><p>Mild tremors were also felt in other parts of Himachal Pradesh and even in Chandigarh and parts of Punjab and Haryana.</p><p>"I felt a strong jolt lasting a couple of seconds. Just when I was thinking of rushing downstairs, the tremors stopped," said Sanjay Kumar, a Chandigarh resident.</p>
<p>Shimla/Chandigarh: Tremors were felt in parts of north India as a 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit Chamba district in the Himalayan state of <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/himachal-pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a> on Thursday.</p><p>Communication network has been affected in villages near the earthquake's epicenter Pangi and teams have been dispatched to the area, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue and Disaster) Onkar Sharma told <em>PTI</em>.</p><p>Officials said that as communication is affected, reports on damages or casualty, if any, are yet to be received.</p><p>The earthquake struck at 9.34 pm and occurred at a depth of 10 km in Pangi, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS) and officials in Shimla.</p><p>Chamba, around 370 km from the Himachal Pradesh capital, falls in the "very high damage risk" seismic zone five of the Himalayan region.</p><p>A 7.8-magnitude earthquake on this day in 1905 in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra had led to large-scale death and destruction, and according to NCS records, more than 20,000 people had died in the disaster in the Western Himalayas.</p><p>More than one lakh buildings in Dharamshala, Kangra, Mcleodganj and nearby areas were damaged and about 53,000 domestic animals had died in the 1905 earthquake.</p><p>Jolts of the Thursday earthquake, according to Sharma, were felt for a "long duration" in areas in Chamba, particularly those near epicentre Pangi.</p><p>On September 12, 1951, a 6-magnitude earthquake had struck the Chamba-Udhampur area on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. The area witnessed a earthquake of the same magnitude on June 17, 1962, according to records.</p><p>In 2004, Himachal Pradesh's Bharmaur area was struck by a 5.1-magnitude earthquake.</p><p>Mild tremors were also felt in other parts of Himachal Pradesh and even in Chandigarh and parts of Punjab and Haryana.</p><p>"I felt a strong jolt lasting a couple of seconds. Just when I was thinking of rushing downstairs, the tremors stopped," said Sanjay Kumar, a Chandigarh resident.</p>