6.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Nepal, 6 Killed, Many Injured; Strong Tremors Felt Across North India

According to authorities in Nepal, at least 6 people were killed and many others injured when a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the western part of Nepal early on Wednesday morning. 

Bhola Bhatta, Deputy Superintendent of Police, who is also the acting chief at the District Police Office in Doti told media that all the victims were killed by the debris of the houses destroyed due to the earthquake.

The National Centre for Seismology further said that the epicenter of the earthquake was in Nepal, about 90-kilometer east-southeast of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand. The area has been witnessing lower-magnitude quakes for the past few days.

The NCS posted a tweet that read, "Earthquake of Magnitude:6.3, Occurred on 09-11-2022, 01:57:24 IST, Lat: 29.24 & Long: 81.06, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Nepal."

Second earthquake in 24 hours

The bigger earthquake that rocked western Nepal was preceded by two smaller ones, one of 5.7 magnitudes on November 8 at 9.07 p.m. and another of 4.1 magnitudes at 9.56 p.m. It claimed that the epicenter was the same.

North India as a whole, including Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, as well as Delhi and its suburbs of Gurugram and Ghaziabad, felt the tremors.

On Twitter, a lot of people posted videos of themselves and their neighbors huddled up around their phones, racing out of their houses, trying to figure out what had occurred and where the epicenter was. 

A Twitter user said that despite living in Delhi for four years, she has never experienced such earthquakes.

On November 6, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter 17 km to the east-southeast of Uttarkashi struck Uttarakhand.