Earthquake Terror: ‘Houses shook like train carriages,’ Residents describe harrowing experience

New Delhi (Uttam Hindu News) - People shared their experiences about the earthquake that struck the national capital Delhi on Monday. They said that after feeling the earthquake tremors, they came out of their houses and came into the open. It was quite scary. Ajay Kumar Bhupak, who lives in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, said that this earthquake occurred at 5:36 minutes. Just like the train compartment shakes, in the same way our whole house shook, our entire roof shook. For a moment, we and our whole family got scared. Our children got up and sat down after feeling the earthquake tremors.

People said, after feeling the tremors of the earthquake, our children got very frightened. After this, all of us came out of the house. Not only us, but the whole colony came out. Everyone was seen telling each other that there was an earthquake. For a moment it seemed as if all the things were moving from one place to another.

At the same time, another person told that this earthquake came at around 5:36 minutes. It was very strong. We all got very scared. After this, all the people living in the entire building came out. For a moment, we could not understand what was happening. We just got up from the bed and felt everything shaking. Some sound was also heard and then it was confirmed that it was an earthquake. Let us tell you that earthquake tremors were felt in Delhi NCR in the morning. According to the National Earthquake Center, the intensity on the Richter scale was measured at 4.0. Its epicenter was at a depth of five kilometers from the ground in New Delhi. It was at 28.59 degrees north latitude and 77.16 degrees east longitude. Due to the low depth and the epicenter being in Delhi, it was felt more in Delhi-NCR.