Deadly earthquake strikes remote western Nepal

After an disaster struck rural northern Nepal on Friday, more than 100 people were killed.

In the arid areas of Jajarkot and Rukum, 500 km( 310 miles ) east of Kathmandu, security forces have been sent to aid in recovery efforts.

Far away, the money of Nepal and towns in neighboring India, including Delhi, experienced significant tremors.

More than 100 individuals had been hurt, according to an army official. The injured are swarming Jajarkot’s clinics.

Within an hour of the earthquake, there were three more tremors, and many people spent the rest of their evening outside out of concern for additional earthquakes and house damage.

Local media images displayed crumbling walls of multi-story brick homes. In social media posts, persons were seen sifting through debris at night to retrieve individuals from the ruins of demolished houses.

According to reports, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has left for the earthquake-affected area.

Suresh Sunar, the city police commander in Jajarkot, told Reuters News Agency that it was challenging to fully understand what had transpired.

” I am by myself in the clear.” Although we are gathering data, it is challenging to obtain information from far-off places because of the cold and darkness.

According to Nepal’s Monitoring and Research Center, the earthquake was detected at 23:47 local time( 18:02 GMT ).

The quake was a deep disaster, meaning it occurred closer to the earth’s surface, according to US Geological Survey measurements of its enormity of 5.6.

Nepal is located near the Himalayas, which are home to a lot of geological action.

There were injuries as a result of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Bajhang’s northern region last month.

The nation experienced two disastrous tremors in 2015, which resulted in 9, 000 fatalities and 22, 309 injuries.

The majority of the injury and fatalities were brought on by the second earthquake, which struck on April 25, 2015. There were numerous tremors that followed, one of which measured 7.3 in May of that year.

According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies( IFRC ), the earthquakes damaged or destroyed more than 800,000 homes, mostly in the western and central districts.

Some villages north of Kathmandu were flattened, along with federal structures, some sections of roads, and the famous historical sites in the Kathmendu Valley, which are Unesco World Heritage Sites.