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Earthquake hits India's Manipur state Earthquake hits India's Manipur state
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Earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitude hits northeast India, near border with Myanmar and Bangladesh An earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitude has hit northeast India, near its border with Myanmar and Bangladesh, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The quake hit at 04:35 local time (23:05 GMT Sunday) about 33km (20 miles) northwest of Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, according to USGS.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. Strong tremors have been felt across the region.
The BBC's Salman Saeed in Dhaka says many people were seen fleeing their homes in Bangladesh.
The USGS estimated that as many as 98m people in the region may have felt the earthquake.
The region has a history of powerful earthquakes caused by the northward collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. They are moving towards each other at a rate of 4-5cm per year.
In 2005, a magnitude 7.6 quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir left more than 75,000 people dead.
In April 2015, Nepal suffered its worst earthquake on record with 9,000 people killed and about 900,000 homes damaged or destroyed.