Three days after a violent earthquake struck Nepal’s Jajarkot region, killing at least a 150 people, a second quake, or an ‘aftershock’ struck the same region on Monday. Much like the November 3 earthquake, the tremors were felt as far away as Delhi though there were no reports of loss of lives, injuries and damage to structures.
“An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 was recorded in Nepal at 16:16,” said an alert from the National Centre for Seismology – Ministry of Earth Sciences. (NCS). No further details were available.
Following the November 3 quake, two aftershocks of magnitude M 3.5 and 3.8 were also recorded within a 10 km radius of the mainshock. “The area is seismically very active and associated with collisional tectonics where the Indian plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate,” according to a note from the NCS. One expert told The Hindu that Monday’s quake could also be considered an aftershock.
