Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their bare hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country's worst earthquake in eight years killed 157 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi.
The quake struck the Jajarkot region in the west of the Himalayan nation at 11:47 p.m. on Friday with a 6.4 magnitude, Nepal's National Seismological Centre said. The German Research Center for Geosciences measured it at 5.7 and the U.S. Geological Survey at 5.6.
Although the quake's magnitude was not severe, the damage and the death toll are high due to the poor quality of construction in the area and because it struck while people slept, officials said. The death toll included 105 people killed in Jajarkot and 52 in neighboring Rukum West district, both in Karnali province, Rama Acharya, an official in the disaster department of the federal home ministry, told Reuters.
At least 85 people were injured in Rukum West and 55 in Jajarkot, an official in the prime minister's office said."Many houses have collapsed; many others have developed cracks. Thousands of residents spent the entire night in cold, open grounds because they were too scared to go in into the cracked houses as aftershocks struck," Sharma said.Local TV channels showed rescuers digging through the rubble with their bare hands looking for survivors in the debris of collapsed houses.
Deputy Prime Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha said India and China have offered to help in search and rescue operations. Local media footage showed crumbled facades of multistoried brick houses, with large pieces of furniture scattered. Videos on X showed people running into the street as some buildings were evacuated.
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