Kathmandu: At least six people were killed when a house that was hit by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake collapsed in Nepal’s Doti district in the early hours of Wednesday. Strong tremors of earthquake were also felt in Delhi and surrounding areas at around 2 pm on Wednesday night. According to the National Center for Seismology, the depth of the earthquake was 10 km below the ground. The National Center for Seismology (NCS) has located 90 km from Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand bordering Nepal. The epicenter of the earthquake is said to be in the southeast. On Wednesday, the second earthquake occurred in Nepal within 24 hours.
The identity of the casualties in the Nepal earthquake is not yet known. Officials said that at least one woman and two children were among the dead. Doti’s Chief District Officer Kalpana Shrestha told ANI that dozens of houses have been damaged due to landslides at many places across the district. Nepal’s army has been sent for search and rescue operations in the earthquake-affected areas.
The NCS also informed that on Tuesday morning, an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 hit the country. According to NCS data, the last earthquake was 155 km from Kathmandu. 100 km to the North East. came to the depths of. Earlier on October 19, an earthquake of 5.1 magnitudes hit Kathmandu. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center (NEMRC), 147 km from Kathmandu on July 31. A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Martim Birta in the distant Khotang district. Earlier in 2015, a high-intensity earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck central Nepal between its capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara. It is estimated that 8,964 people were killed and 22,000 were injured.
This earthquake is known as the Gorkha earthquake. He too shook many cities in North India. Tremors were also felt in Lahore, Pakistan, Lhasa in Tibet, and Dhaka in Bangladesh. The recent earthquakes in Nepal have caused unprecedented damage to life and property and have necessitated well-planned policy measures to deal with such disasters. In 1934, Nepal had to face the worst earthquake. Its intensity was 8.0 on the Richter scale. It destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan. It has been reported that the Indian plate is 5 cm below the Eurasian plate. per annum rate. It is responsible for the formation and rising altitude of the young Himalayan mountains. It also increases the risk of earthquakes in the region. Disasters like earthquakes can wreak havoc if there is no necessary preparedness for rescue.
Apart from Manipur, strong tremors of earthquake were also felt in Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar. Till the time of writing the news, no damage has been reported from anywhere. According to the National Center for Seismology, these tremors were felt in Nepal and India as well as China.
The earthquake also occurred on the night of 8 November at 8.52 pm.
The tremors were felt in many districts of Uttar Pradesh even at 8.52 pm on Tuesday night, 8 November 2022, a few hours before this late-night earthquake. Its intensity was measured at 4.9 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of this earthquake was on the border of India and Nepal in Uttarakhand. This earthquake was also 10 km below the ground.
