Published: Saturday, February 13, 2021, 9:01 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 13: Minutes after a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Tajikistan late on Friday, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah took to Twitter and said he grabbed a blanket and ran as soon as he felt the tremors. Not since the earthquake of 2005 have the tremors in Srinagar been bad enough to force me out of the house. I grabbed a blanket & ran. I didn t remember to take my phone & so was unable to tweet earthquake while the damn ground was shaking, Omar Abdullah tweeted.
Earlier, reports claimed that the epicentre was being in Punjab s Amritsar. However, later it was clarified that the earthquake had its epicentre in Tajikistan.