New Delhi: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit Nepal on Tuesday with strong tremors being felt across Delhi and surrounding areas.
“An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter Scale hit Nepal at 2:28 pm today,” National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.
The quake’s epicentre was in Nepal at a place 148 km east of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, it added.
Residents of Delhi-NCR took to social media to share videos of ceiling fans and household objects shaking during the tremors that lasted less than a minute.
The tremors lasted for almost 10-15 seconds and many people were seen rushing out of their homes and offices in panic. There have been no reports of damage caused by the earthquake so far.
