Chennai, Nov 29 (PTI) An earthquake occurred early on Monday off Tamil Nadu's northern town of Vellore, the National Centre for Seismology said.

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The earthquake was of the magnitude of 3.6, and it occurred on Monday at '04:17:22 IST' at a depth of 25 kilometres and it was 59 kilometres off Vellore and about 184 km west of Chennai, the NCS under the Ministry of Earth Sciences said.

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