Kathmandu:
An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Nepal within the early hours of Friday, as reported by the Nationwide Heart of Seismology (NCS).
The NCS offered the small print in a publish on X.
Based on the NCS, the earthquake occurred at 01:33 hours at a depth of 10 kilometres in Nepal.
It befell at latitude 29.36 N and longitude 80.44 E.
“EQ of M: 4.3, On: 23/05/2025 01:33:53 IST, Lat: 29.36 N, Lengthy: 80.44 E, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Nepal.”
EQ of M: 4.3, On: 23/05/2025 01:33:53 IST, Lat: 29.36 N, Lengthy: 80.44 E, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Nepal.
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There have been no fast stories of casualties or main harm. Additional particulars are awaited.
Shallow earthquakes are extra harmful than deeper ones attributable to their better vitality launch nearer to the Earth’s floor, inflicting stronger floor shaking and elevated harm to constructions and casualties, in comparison with deeper earthquakes, which lose vitality as they journey to the floor.
Nepal is extremely earthquake-prone attributable to its location on a convergent boundary the place the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide. This collision generates immense stress and stress, which is launched as earthquakes. Nepal can also be located in a subduction zone the place the Indian Plate is sliding beneath the Eurasian Plate, additional rising stress and pressure.
Nepal lies within the Himalayan area, a zone of intense seismic exercise brought on by the continuing collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. This collision ends in the Indian plate pushing beneath the Eurasian plate in a course of known as subduction, creating immense stress and pressure on the Earth’s crust.
The subduction zone additional amplifies the stress, making Nepal extremely weak to earthquakes. The collision additionally contributes to the uplift of the Himalayan mountains, including to the general seismic exercise within the area.
Nepal has a protracted historical past of earthquakes, together with devastating occasions just like the 2015 earthquake.
Earlier on April 26, a minute’s silence was noticed for 8,969 victims who misplaced their lives on April 25 2015, within the devastating earthquake of seven.8 Richter scale a decade in the past.
Standing beneath the reproduction of Dharahara Tower that fell down in the course of the earthquake a decade in the past, killing dozens, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli remembered these killed within the pure catastrophe.
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