Mr. Athula Senaratne, a former senior professor at the Geology Department of the University of Peradeniya, states that there may be more earthquakes near the Indo-Australian tectonic boundary in Sri Lanka.
He said that the Indo-Australian plate where Sri Lanka is located is currently splitting into two plates.
Due to this, the changes taking place inside the earth have led to an increase in the number of earthquakes reported, the professor further stated.
He said that there was no risk due to the earthquake that occurred at around 1.30 am yesterday, three hundred and ten (310) kilometers away from Batticaloa, but if such shocks occur on the east coast, tsunami risks may arise.
Professor Atula Senaratne said this while commenting on the impact of the earthquake that occurred off Batticaloa yesterday with a value of 4.65 on the Richter scale.
The professor said that in the first ten hours since the first earthquake was reported, 08 earthquakes have occurred in the Indo-Australian tectonic plate as well as in the tectonic plate between Indonesia and Japan and all these shocks exceeded the Richter index value of 04.
