5.5-magnitude earthquake hits Nepal

भिडियो हेर्न तलको बिज्ञापन लाई हटाउनुहोस

A reasonable intensity earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale shook Nepal in early hours today.

According to the national Centre for Seismology, an unit of Ministry of Earth Sciences, the quake occurred at 5:05 am at a depth of 10 km.
The epicentre was located at Solukhumbu district near the Everest region, around 150 km east of Kathmandu, Nepal's National Seismological Center said. It recorded the intensity of the quake at tips.6.

This was the 475th aftershock, of magnitude 4 and above, of the devastating April 2015 temblor in the quake-prone Himalayan country.
There was no immediate report virtually any damage or casualty.
The earthquake have also been felt in Kathmandu and other parts of central and Eastern Nepal.