A powerful earthquake that struck Nepal’s western Jajarkot district on Saturday caused at least 128 deaths and several injuries, according to Reuters quoting officials.
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The earthquake also caused buildings as far away as New Delhi in neighboring India to tremble.
The magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck on Friday at 11:47 p.m. (1802 GMT), according to Nepal’s National Seismological Centre. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 5.6, while the German Research Center for Geosciences downgraded it from 6.2 to 5.7.
Quoting police spokesman, Reuters reported that 92 people were killed in Jajarkot and 36 in neighbouring Rukum West district, both in Karnali province.
The epicentre was in the village of Ramidanda.At least 85 people were injured in Rukum West and 55 in Jajarkot, an official in the prime minister’s office said, while Sharma said at least 50 people were in hospitals in Jajarkot alone
