The earth shook in Nepal on Friday evening: landslides occurred in the western part of the country on the Himalayan Mountains and houses collapsed. According to current information, 69 people were killed and dozens were injured.
“Rescue and search teams have to clear roads blocked as a result of the earthquake to reach affected areas,” said police officer Namaraj Bhattarai. In addition, the telephone networks were down; Not all victims and damage are known.
According to Nepal’s National Seismological Center, the quake hit shortly before midnight (local time) particularly in the Jajarkot district, a hilly area with 190,000 inhabitants, in Karnali province. Jajarkot is about 500 kilometers west of the capital Kathmandu.
There are different reports about the intensity of the earthquake: Nepal’s National Seismological Center gave the magnitude as 6.4, the German GeoResearch Center (GFZ) later downgraded it to 5.7, and the US Geological Survey measured 5.6.
There were two earthquakes in 2015 Nepal around 9,000 people were killed. Entire cities, centuries-old temples and other historic sites, and a million homes were destroyed. Damaged the economy by six billion dollars. (knu)