KATHMANDU: At least 56 people were killed when a shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said on Saturday morning.
The tremor hit the far west of the Himalayan country on Friday night and was measured by the United States Geological Survey at just 18 kilometers deep.Moderate tremors were felt as far away as India's capital New Delhi, nearly 500 km from the quake's epicenter.Residents walk past road damage following an earthquake in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on April 26, 2015.
Nepal lies on a major geological faultline where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence.The government has deployed security forces to help with rescue efforts.
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