6 killed as 6.3 quake hits Nepal; tremors felt in North India
| Date :10-Nov-2022 |
New Delhi/Kathmandu,
AT LEAST six people were killed when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the lower Himalayan region early on Wednesday, leading to tremors rippling across North India and parts of Nepal and jolting people out of their sleep in scores of cities and villages. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said that the epicentre of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which struck at 1.57 am, was in Nepal, about 90 km east-south-east of Pithoragarh. The region has been experiencing lower magnitude quakes for the last few days.
Mild aftershocks were also felt in the Uttarakhand-Nepal region at 3:15 am and 6:27 am. The NCS said the magnitude of the two tremors was 3.6 and 4.3 respectively. The National Earthquake Monitoring Centre of Nepal said, a 6.6-magnitude quake was recorded at 2.12 am. The epicentre was Doti district.
Two moderate earthquakes preceded the stronger tremor that jolted western Nepal, a 5.7-magnitude tremor at 9.07 pm on Tuesday and a 4.1-magnitude one shortly after at 9.56 pm. The epicentre was the same, it said.
Six people were killed in the earthquake, Nepal’s Home Ministry spokesperson Phanindra Pokharel said.
Five people who sustained serious injuries were rushed to the district hospital in Doti, Pokharel told PTI over the phone. A police post and eight houses collapsed due to the earthquake.
The tremors were felt in Delhi and the surrounding areas of Ghaziabad and Gurugram and even in Lucknow, jolting people out of their sleep.
Deuba condoles loss of lives in Nepal’s quake: NEPAL Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday condoled the loss of lives in the two back-to-back earthquakes that hit Doti district in the Himalyan nation.
Taking to Twitter, Deuba posted in Nepali: “Expressing my heartfelt condolences to the families of those who died in the quake. I have directed the authorities concerned for immediate treatment of the affected.”