A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh Friday afternoon, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh Friday afternoon, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The NCS, which works under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, said the quake was reported at 12.45 pm at a depth of 33 km.
The 2015 Disaster
In 2015, Nepal was jolted by worst earthquake in 80 years. On April 25, 2015, the 7.8 earthquake changed the nation forever. Around 9,000 people were killed and another hundred and thousands were displaced in the massive earthquake.
After initial outpouring of relief, Nepal had later told the aid agencies that it won’t need more foreign rescue teams to come and help in the search for earthquake survivors, because its government and military could cope, the national head of the United Nations Development Programme. India had also extended help to its neighbour. The united Nations had released $15 million as emergency aid for quake-hit Nepal to "scale up" the rescue operations in the country which facied an acute shortage of food, water, electricity and medicines.
At that time, over 20,000 Indian nationals were evacuated from Nepal and arrangements were made to take them to their homes by trains from Bihar’s Raxaul.
The fault lines
The entire Himalayan region is prone to earthquakes. In India, the hills of Uttarakhand are hit frequently by mild earthquakes -- as many as 51 since January 1, 2015 -- which are often dismissed as "usual occurrences". But are these tremors indicative of a big earthquake in future? "Yes," says the head of state's Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (DMMC).
"Frequent mild earthquakes in the hills of Uttarakhand should not be dismissed as common occurrences but treated as pointers to a major earthquake which is long overdue in the central seismic gap of the Himalayan front spanning Himachal Pradesh, Nepal and Uttarakhand," DMMC Executive Director Piyush Rautela told the news agency.
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