A powerful earthquake of the magnitude of 6.1 hit the north of Nepal, near Katmandú, on Friday, said the National Center for Monitoring and Research of the country's earthquake.
The earthquake hit Bhairab Kunda from the Sindhupalchok district in Nepal.
The German Research Center for Geosciences placed the magnitude of the earthquake in 5.6 and the depth at 10 km (6.21 miles).
There were no immediate reports of damage or declines of the earthquake.
“He shook us from our dream,” Ganesh Nepali, a senior official of the Sindhupalchok district, told Reuters. “We leave home. People have now returned to homes. So far we have not received any damage or injury report.”
