Earthquake in Vijayapura? – The Hindu

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Residents of Vijayapura city witness an earthquake on Saturday night.

AL Nagur, a resident of Kanakadasa Nagar, said that he and his neighbors ran out from their houses at night. “Tremors lasted around 4-5 seconds,” he said.

Abdul Aziz Rajput, a resident of KHB Colony, said that they heard a loud noise before the tremors.

“At 8.17 pm, we heard a shrill noise, that sounded like the long whistle of an approaching train. But we knew that it was not a train. Initially, we panicked,” he said. Magnitude of the earthquake and other details like the epicentre were not immediately known.

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