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After blast, quake jolts Capital

New Delhi, September 7
An earthquake of medium intensity jolted Delhi and its satellite towns late tonight, pulling panic-stricken people out of their homes.  

The tremors, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale with Haryana's Sonepat as epicentre, were felt across Delhi and its adjoining satellite towns of Ghaziabad and Noida in Uttar Pradesh and Gurgaon in Haryana at 11.28 pm for less than 10 seconds.

"The intensity was 4.2 and the epicentre was Sonepat," Shailesh Nayak, Secretary in Ministry of Earth Sciences, and IMD Director General Ajit Tyagi said. The quake sent shivers among citizens who ran out of the high-rise buildings. There were no immediate reports of any casualty. — PTI