NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck 93 km northeast of Lobuche, Nepal, at 6.35 am IST on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Tremors were also felt across Bihar and several parts of North India.
Lobuche is located in Nepal, east of the capital city of Kathmandu. It is situated near the Khumbu Glacier, about 150 kilometers east of Kathmandu and 8.5 kilometers southwest of Everest Base Camp.
A day earlier, on Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 hit Afghanistan at 12.47 pm IST, the National Centre of Seismology (NCS) reported. The quake occurred at a depth of 120 kilometres, with its epicentre recorded at Latitude 36.55 N and Longitude 67.86 E.
Nepal, according to experts, is exposed to earthquakes as it is in a seismically active zone, which makes quakes inevitable.
The last time Nepal felt such a strong earthquake was on April 25, 2015, when a 7.8 magnitude quake killed some 9,000 people, the worst in Nepal’s history, and damaged about 1 million structures. The previous deadliest earthquake that struck the region was in 1934 with over 8,000 fatalities.
