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Island off India's eastern shore rocked by 6.0 quake NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (AFP) - An earthquake of moderate intensity was felt Saturday near an Indian island in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. "The tremor measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale occurred at around 3:59 am (2229 GMT Friday) in the North Andaman Island," an official at the meteorlogical department in New Delhi told AFP. "The epicentre of the quake lay a little offshore under the seabed." There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from the scarcely inhabited Andaman and Nicobar islands, which serve as a major Indian naval base. |
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