KATHMANDU — At least one person died and more than two dozen houses were damaged in a remote Nepalese district after an earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Himalayan nation on Tuesday (Jan 24), officials said, as tremors were felt as far as India's capital New Delhi. Military and police teams have been rushed to the affected area in Bajura...
A picture of the source of the Nepal earthquake on an interactive map by United States Geological Survey.KATHMANDU — At least one person died and more than two dozen houses were damaged in a remote Nepalese district after an earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Himalayan nation on Tuesday , officials said, as tremors were felt as far as India's capital New Delhi.
A woman who had climbed up a hill to collect fodder was crushed to death by a falling stone loosened by the tremors, Gaumul village official Deb Bahadur Rokaya said. "It was quite a big tremor. There were people all gathered on the streets. There was terror for some time," said Nain Rawal, an official in Bajura district.
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