Mild earthquake hits Nepal

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Dec 08, 2017, 12:38 PM

Mild earthquake hits Nepal

Nepal, December 8: A medium intensity earthquake has hit Nepal's Dolakha district on Friday.National Seismological Centre said that "the tremor, which was felt at 8:36 am local time, was of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale and was listed as an aftershock sequence of 2015 Gorkha earthquake."

NSC has added that "the epicenter of the quake was Dolakha, near Jiri, with coordinates 27.68 degree N and 86.19 degree E and at the depth of 10 kilometers."

The tremors were also felt in Kathmandu.Sources said that Nepal had witnessed several aftershocks following the devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015, in Nepal, which killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000.