Earthquake in India’s Himalayas to be felt in Lanka

Colombo and Jaffna are likely to feel the effect of any powerful earthquake happening in the Himalayan range, as predicted by Indian geologists, geologist Prof Athula Senaratne said on Saturday. If India experiences a quake of magnitude 8, it would be felt in Colombo and Jaffna, Prof Senaratne told reporters.

Two years ago, a quake that happened in the Himalayan range of magnitude 5 was severely felt in Colombo, people even came out of buildings, Prof Senaratne said.He said the area concerned was where the Eurasian and the Indo-Australian plates could come into conflict.

Prof Senaratne was referring to a warning issued by the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Institute of the potential high-magnitude earthquake in India’s Uttarakhand region.