Earthquake in Nepal on Friday evening: A landslide in the western part of the country in the Himalayas caused houses to collapse. According to current reports, 69 people have been killed and dozens injured.
“Rescue and search teams will have to clear the roads blocked as a result of the earthquake to reach the affected areas,” said police officer Namraj Bhattarai. In addition, telephone networks were down; All victims and damages are unknown.
According to Nepal’s National Seismological Center, the quake struck shortly before midnight (local time) in the mountainous Jajarkot district of Karnali province with a population of 190,000. Jajarkot is about 500 kilometers west of the capital Kathmandu.
There are various reports on the magnitude of the earthquake: Nepal’s National Seismological Center put it at 6.4, the German Geological Survey (GFZ) later downgraded it to 5.7, and the US Geological Survey downgraded it to 5.6.
There were two earthquakes in 2015 Nepal About 9,000 people were killed. Entire cities, centuries-old temples and other historical sites and a million homes were destroyed. Damaged the economy by six billion dollars. (knu)
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