Nepal Earthquake Latest News: A powerful earthquake, registering at a magnitude of 6.4, struck Nepal s remote region on Friday night, leaving at least 128 people dead and dozens more injured. The impact of this natural disaster reverberated as far as New Delhi, approximately 550 kilometers from the earthquake s epicenter.
Nepal was hit by twin earthquakes during the intervening night between April 27 and April 28. Two earthquakes of magnitudes 4.8 and 5.9 on the Richter Scale were felt overnight. The epicentre of the earthquake was at Bajura's Dahakot, over 800 km northwest of Kathmandu.
"The first earthquake struck at 11:58 pm (local time) measuring 4.9 magnitude while at 1:30 another measuring 5.9 magnitude has been recorded," Rajesh Sharma, an official at the Seismological Center in Surkhet district of Nepal told New Delhi-based news agency ANI.