A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck 218 km north-northwest of Bamboo Flat on Thursday. Congress candidate and sitting MLC Abhijeet Wanjari defeated BJP's Sudhakar Kohale by 3,271 votes to retain the Nagpur Division Graduates' constituency seat. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the tremor occurred at 12:06 p.m. IST, with its epicentre located in the Andaman Sea at a depth of 90 kilometres (latitude 12.49°N,.