Earthquake Hits Tibet-Nepal Border, jolts Bihar, Delhi-NCR: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet near the Nepal border on Tuesday morning. According to news agency Reuters, 95 people have been killed so far due to the tremors and consequent building collapses in the region.
Several parts of India, including Bihar, Delhi-NCR, Assam, and West Bengal, too, received the jolts.According to the National Center for Seismology (NCS) and the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, the massive quake hit Tibet’s Xizang at 6:35 am at a depth of 10 km.The epicentre was located at latitude 28.86 N and Longitude 87.51 E. According to NCS, four earthquakes jolted Xizang. The first measured 4.2 on the Richter scale at 5:41 am, the second and biggest (7.1) at 6:35 am, the third at 7:02 am of magnitude 4.7, and the fourth measuring 4.9 at 7:07.
The NCS has shared details of the few more subsequent earthquakes that have been hitting the area. However, those were not too strong.The high-altitude Dingri County in Xizang is home to around 62,000 people and is situated on Mount Everest. It has registered several building collapses amid sub-zero temperatures.
Earthquake tremors felt in Bihar’s Sheohar as an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit 93 km North East of Lobuche, Nepal at 06:35:16 IST today
In several parts of Bihar, including Muzaffarpur, Motihari, Bettiah, Munger, Araria, Sitamarhi, Gopalganj, Vaishali, Nawada, and Nalanda, the tremors were felt for around 30 seconds
