Sri Lanka will be affected by strong earthquakes in India's Himalayas
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Colombo: Indian geologists predicted that the northern city of Jaffna and the capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, are likely to experience the effects of any significant earthquake that occurs in the Himalayan range.
Colombo and Jaffna would feel tremors if a magnitude 8 earthquake occurred in India, according to Athula Senaratne, a professor at a local university.
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, Senaratne said.
He said the area concerned was where the Eurasian and the Indo-Australian plates could come into conflict.
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.
With PTI inputs
