No casualties or damage to properties have been reported so far.
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A low intensity earthquake measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale hit the national capital on Thursday morning.
According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences’s National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake, with a depth of 15 kilometres, had the epicentre near West Delhi and struck at 9.17 a.m.
No casualties or damage to properties have been reported so far.
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Earthquakes of less than five magnitude are unlikely to cause large-scale damage, unless in case of weak or compromised structures.
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