By: Web Desk | Kathmandu | Updated: May 12, 2015 8:40 pm
Already devastated, Nepal on Tuesday suffered another powerful earthquake of 7.3-magnitude that killed at least 42 people and injured over 1,000 in less than three weeks of a temblor that had claimed over 8,000 lives.
Nepal’s Home Ministry while putting the death toll at 42 said another 1,117 people had been injured in the latest quake that hit hardest in remote mountain districts northeast of the country’s capital Kathmandu.
The earthquake struck at 12:35 PM, some 83 kilometres east of Kathmandu near Mount Everest at a shallow depth of 15 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.
The agency had earlier measured the quake at 7.4 on the Richter Scale but later revised the intensity to 7.3.
The quake hit Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk districts – the worst-affected areas in the last month’s temblor.
The fresh quake triggered massive panic among the people, who have been staying in the open since the 7.9-magnitude temblor struck on April 25, killing over 8,000 people and flattening thousands of buildings besides destroying whole villages.
Delhi-NCR along with the whole of north India witnessed fresh tremors lasting up almost more than a minute. People were seen rushing out of offices and residential complexes. Delhi Metro services were briefly disrupted.
The tremors come just weeks after a massive 7.9 earthquake rattled the Himalayan kingdom and its capital Kathmandu killing more than 8,000 people and flattening several centuries-old heritage structures.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has tweeted saying that his ministry is in the process of collecting more details and information. He added that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been kept on alert.
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