At least six people were killed in Nepal on Wednesday after an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, the Doti district official said.
The victims died buried in their home in a remote, sparsely populated mountain village in the west of the country, Kalpana Shrestha added, noting that five other people were injured.
The Nepal Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center reported a preliminary measurement of a magnitude of 6.6, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a magnitude of 5.6.
The quake struck at 2:12 a.m. (8:00 p.m. Tuesday in Lisbon), at a depth of 15.7 kilometers, and caused residents of several villages to flee their homes and spend the night on the streets, he said. Shrestha.
The official said security forces had been dispatched to the area, where several houses were damaged, to help with relief operations.
The earthquake was felt in the Indian capital, New Delhi, some 400 kilometers west of the epicenter, located 21 kilometers east of the Nepalese city of Dipayal.
In 2015, some 9,000 people were killed in a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal, damaging nearly a million structures.
Source: TSF
