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India-Myanmar border prone to frequent quakes
Times of India | Naresh Mitra | TNN | May 17, 2015, 05.39 AM IST
With the horrors of the Nepal quake fresh in the minds of the people here, experts warned that areas along the India-Myanmar border frequently experience earthquake of magnitude five on the Richter Scale and that a high-magnitude temblor can strike the region any time.
"Earthquakes of magnitude five on the Richter Scale occur along the India-Myanmar border once in every three or four months. After the 1950 temblor, there has been no high-magnitude earthquake in the region. It can happen anytime," said Chandan Ghosh, head of the geo-hazards division of National Institute of Disaster Management.
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