The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months. Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today sparked panic among the denizens in Delhi and other parts of north India. No casualties have been reported from the region. A senior official of the Meteorological Department said, “It was a quake of 4.9 intensity on the Richter scale. The epicentre was at Bahadurgarh that lies on the Delhi-Haryana border, 35 km from Delhi. It took place 9 km below the surface.” The tremors were also felt in satellite cities like Noida, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Ghaziabad that made the people rush out from their apartments and offices. Shaking was also felt in Rohtak, Jhajjar, Hisar and Bhiwani in Haryana and Agra in Uttar Pradesh. Even while the Delhi Police and fire brigade did not receive any calls reporting any casualties, small cracks were reported in some old buildings in Haryana that included the outer wall of a school building in Rohtak. However district authorities claimed that the reports of any major damage due to the quake were false. Police officials from Jhajjar, the district in which Bahadurgarh falls, also maintained that no major damage has been reported from the region. The previous two tremors in September 2011 had rocked the city within a gap of 10 days. When the earth shook * Today's quake 19th in India this year and 3rd in 5 days * In January, there were 10 tremors. Six in Feb * Last year, there were 80 quakes in India. A majority occurred in J&K, Haryana and Punjab * Delhi among 30 Indian cities falling in a zone defined as a severe intensity seismic zone