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Wednesday 16 September 2020 06:37 AM | Posted by: Earthquake Monitor

This morning’s earthquake in Nepal and the site user reports about it

A moderately strong earthquake struck Nepal this morning at 5:19 am local time (five hours 45 minutes ahead of GMT). According to various agencies, the quake measured between 4.9 and 6.0 on the Richter scale and nearly struck. 60 km northeast of Kathmandu in the Sindhupalchuk region. The earthquake was felt on a large scale in the vicinity and the capital, where thousands felt a short tremor, although many people left their homes for fear of strong earthquakes, recalling the deadly magnitude 7.8 earthquake 5 years ago on April 25, 2015, which struck 100 km to the west Today’s earthquake, killing nearly 9,000 people and injuring nearly 22,000 people. A local newspaper reported that a house in the quake zone collapsed and one person was injured. The area where the earthquake was centered had recently suffered from a series of devastating landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains and claimed many lives. Authorities warn that the new earthquake and its aftershocks could further destabilize slopes, which could in turn lead to more landslides in the near future.

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