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SRDF and police personnel inspect part of a building that was damaged due to an earthquake, at Beltola in Guwahati on Wednesday GUWAHATI: A day after a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter Scale rocked the state, the aftershocks were felt on Thursday, too, triggering panic among residents. After the first quake of 6.4 magnitude struck Tezpur at 7.51 am on Wednesday resulting in widespread damage, a total of 18 aftershocks hit the district and its nearby areas on both sides of the Brahmaputra in central Assam. “A total of 18 aftershocks of magnitude ranging between 2.3 and 4.7 are located within 24 hours from the time of occurrence of main shock of M:6.4, signifying the release of the stress in the vicinity of today’s source zone in and around Sonitpur, Assam,” the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said on Thursday.

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