Magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes near Mongolia’s Sainshand – EMSC

(Reuters) -A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck near Sainshand region in Mongolia early on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

The quake had a depth of 15 km (9.32 miles), the EMSC said.

EMSC had earlier reported the tremor was as much as 5.6 with a depth of two km.

(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru, Editing by William Maclean)

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