Death toll from earthquake in Tibet-Nepal jumps to 50, over 60 injured | India News

NEW DELHI: At least 50 people were killed and 60 injured after an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck near the Tibet-Nepal border on Tuesday morning, as reported by China’s state media via AFP.
The quake, which occurred at 6.35 am IST, had its epicentre in Tibet region, about 93 km northeast of Lobuche, Nepal, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The earthquake, centred at a depth of 10 kilometres, also caused tremors in Bihar and several parts of North India. Lobuche, located near the Khumbu Glacier in Nepal, lies approximately 150 kilometres east of Kathmandu and is close to the Everest Base Camp.
China’s earthquake monitoring agency recorded the quake’s magnitude as 6.8, with the epicentral region at an altitude of about 4,200 metres (13,800 feet), according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Further, as per NCS data, two more earthquakes struck the region later in the morning.
One of magnitude 4.7 was recorded at 7:02 AM IST, with its epicenter at latitude 28.60 degrees North and longitude 87.68 degrees East, at a depth of 10 kilometers.

Another earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred at 7:07 AM IST, with its epicenter at latitude 28.68 degrees North and longitude 87.54 degrees East, at a depth of 30 kilometers.

Nepal, according to experts, is exposed to earthquakes as it is in a seismically active zone, which makes quakes inevitable.
The last time Nepal felt such a strong earthquake was on April 25, 2015, when a 7.8 magnitude quake killed some 9,000 people, the worst in Nepal’s history, and damaged about 1 million structures. The previous deadliest earthquake that struck the region was in 1934 with over 8,000 fatalities.
A day earlier, on Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 hit Afghanistan at 12.47 pm IST, the National Centre of Seismology (NCS) reported. The quake occurred at a depth of 120 kilometres, with its epicentre recorded at Latitude 36.55 N and Longitude 67.86 E.