Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Riiju is expected to reach Imphal in the afternoon to monitor the situation.
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Apem Arthur, an Imphal resident, said: “The ground swayed for nearly a minute, jolting people awake in their homes”.
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“I didn’t feel the tremor, but when I woke up the entire ceiling had collapsed on me”, said R.K. Ewansana, a 21-year-old student, who was on the first floor but survived as the rest of the building collapsed around him.
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All six confirmed deaths were in the state of Manipur, local police said.
In April and May 2015, two massive earthquakes struck Nepal, killing more than 8,000 people, and in October, an quake hit a remote area in Afghanistan, killing over 200 people and sending shockwaves as far as New Delhi.
A chance appeared in the terminal building, as well as in the airport, flights were standard, although a border wall fell, said. It struck before dawn around 4.35 am on Monday at a depth of 17 kilometers in the India-Myanmar border region.
People took to social media to report cracks in their buildings and damage to household items such as mirrors, glass cabinets and ceiling fans.
In 1950, dozens of villages were swallowed in a string of disasters generated by a powerful quake whose epicentre was in Tibet but which caused the greatest destruction to India’s Assam state.
On Monday, officials said at least six people lost their lives in India, while three were reported to have died in neighboring Bangladesh.
Teams from the National Disaster Response Force have been instructed to move from Assam’s capital Guwahati to areas affected by the quake, the Indian Prime Minister’s Office tweeted.
At least 50 persons were injured from all over the state, Army officials said.
NDMA spoke to the control room/relief commissioners of all the states in the North-East: Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Nagaland and the State of West Bengal.
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India’s north-east region is considered the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.
