Shillong, April 13 (IANS) India's northeastern states and Bangladesh shook on Wednesday evening after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, officials said.
The tremors were felt at 7.25 p.m. with its epicentre in the Myanmar-India border region, said an official of the Regional Seismological Centre in Shillong.
Seven of the northeastern states -- Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur -- are considered by seismologists as the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.
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