Sunday, August 30, 2015

Magnitude 5.0 quake jolts kathmandu

Posted by Anup Baral August 30, 2015 :


A New fresh aftershock of 5.0 magnitude was felt at 7:02 pm on Sunday according to National Seismological Center (NSC) located the epicentre at 22 km northeast of Dhulikhel, Kavre. People rushed out of their houses and gathered at open spaces and roads. Third quake felt just in a single day. The aftershocks were fluctuating in the recent time, it will gradually fizzle out, RSS quoted Lok Bijay Adhikari, Chief at the NSC. Earlier, two mild aftershocks of 4.3M and 4.1M were recorded with epicenters at Dhading and Dolakha districts respectively. Altogether 387 aftershocks above 4 on the Richter scale have been recorded after April 25 'Gorkha Earthquake', the Centre said.

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