Quake jolts valley, no loss
TNN Bureau. Updated: 9/24/2017 1:53:45 AM
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JAMMU: An earthquake measuring 4.5 Richter's scale shook Kashmir Valley today. There was, however, no damage caused by the tremor.
According an official of the MET department, the epicentre of the earthquake, which was recorded at 5.44 am, was in Symbol area of Bandipora.
The Police said there were no reports of any damage due to the tremor.
Meanwhile, in a Public Interest Litigation filed by Kirpal Chand seeking direction to State to constitute a committee under the Chairman ship of Chief Secretary with members of concerned fields to review the preparedness of the state Government with regard to the earth quake, a Division Bench of State High Court comprising Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice BS Walia granted three weeks' time to respondents to file response.
Meanwhile court also made it clear that in case the response is not filed by the respondents, this Court will be constrained to pass appropriate orders against the respondents.
The petitioner through PIL has submitted that some days back news have appeared in the press that our state has become vulnerable to earthquake of abnormal magnitude and may cause huge loss to life and property and this has caused concerns to all the residents of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as earthquakes are one of the worst natural disasters resulting havoc to mankind. "According to Disaster and Hazard profile of J&K, drawn by Department of Ecology Environment and Remote sensing Govt of J&K, our state falls in the most vulnerable zones, Zone-IV and Zone-V.
"The Kashmir valley falls more or less in Zone-V and Ladakh region and Jammu region fall in Zone-IV," the petitioner stated.