Kathmandu, Nov 5: A team of National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center, Lainchaur has reached Jajarkot to carry out further study and research on the earthquake that occurred on Friday night. The team is led by senior seismologist Dr Lokvijaya Adhikari.
Director General of Department of
Mines and Geology, Ram Prasad Ghimire, said that the team will be carrying out
comprehensive study and research on the earthquake. The team will study the
depth of the earthquake, the direction of the damage, and the structures
damaged by the earthquake.
Meanwhile, senior seismologist Dr
Adhikari said that the Jajarkot earthquake was not an aftershock of the Bajhang
earthquake, but a new earthquake. Four aftershocks have occurred following the
Friday night earthquake that hit Ramidanda of Jajarkot. Aftershock of 4.5
magnitude was recorded the same night at 12:08 pm, of 4.2 at 12:29 pm, of 4.3
at 12:35 pm and of 4.2 at 3:40 on Saturday afternoon.
So far, 157 people have been
confirmed dead in Jajarkot and Rukum Paschim with more than 200 people injured
in the earthquake that measured 6.4 in the Richter scale. (RSS)