Nepal Earthquake: 4.3 magnitude tremblor strikes the Himalayan Nation
Kathmandu, Sep 26: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale jolted Nepal on Thursday evening. The tremblor hit the Himalayan nation at 06:34 pm this evening.
Details about epicentre is yet to be known. No casualties have been reported so far.
A massive 5.8 magnitude earthquake had struck Mirpur in PoK Yesterday in which 19 people were killed.
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Recalling 2015 Nepal earthquake:
The
April
2015
Nepal
earthquake
killed
nearly
9,000
people
and
injured
nearly
22,000.
It
occurred
at
11:56
Nepal
Standard
Time
on
25
April
2015,
with
a
magnitude
of
7.8
o
the
Richter
Scale.
Its
epicenter
was
east
of
Gorkha
District
at
Barpak,
Gorkha,
and
its
hypocenter
was
at
a
depth
of
approximately
8.2
km.
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It was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake. The quake was followed by hundreds of aftershocks, and only 17 days later, there was another major quake, a magnitude 7.3 temblor. Thirty-nine of the nation's 75 districts with a population of 8 million people - about a third of the national population - were affected.
Around 200 people were rescued from the Mount Everest region which was hit by a couple of avalanches following a devastating earthquake in Nepal measuring 7.9 in the Richter Scale, on April 26.