Two earthquakes in one morning in Nepal: the shift of the soil blocked the motorway (video)

According to the authorities, it is known about 11 victims and one missing woman. On October 3, the earthquake became the strongest in Nepal since the beginning of 2023. Two magnitude earthquakes 6. 3 and 5. 3 occurred in Western Nepal on Tuesday, October 3. Underground shocks caused a landslide that blocked the main highway in the Budzhang region, bordering on India. The earthquakes that followed one by one with a difference of half an hour, dwellings were destroyed and roads were damaged.

About it reports Reuters. The epicenters of earthquakes were in the area of ​​Talcot and Chainpur cities, which are more than 600 km away, the authorities said. Underground shocks were felt even in the Indian capital of New Delhi, where people ran out of homes and office buildings. Damage reports in India have not yet been received.

Police representative Bharat Bakhadur Shah reported that 11 people - seven women and four men - were injured in varying severity and were hospitalized at local hospital. One of the victims was injured when a heavy object fell on it. Another woman disappeared. It was likely that it was covered with a shift of the soil after an earthquake. Nepal's authorities have not yet reported the search and rescue operation.

According to Volcano Discovery Earthquakes, in Nepal, located south of the Himalaya Mountain Range, more than a hundred earthquakes have been recorded from January to June 2023. By the power of underground shocks, most earthquakes can be attributed to average power: this year, the most powerful earthquakes to this day occurred on January 24 (5. 6 points) and April 28 (5. 2 points). The state of Nepal is located in one of the most seismically dangerous places on the planet.

Nepal in the truest sense is in the Himalayas - a chain of mountains wide 1335 kilometers and a length of 2330 kilometers, which are still in the formation process. Himalayas is the highest mountain system of our planet, the highest height of the spine reaches 8848 meters above the ocean level. The Himalayev mountain chain is the result of the collision of two lithospheric plates of the earth's crust - Indian and Eurasian. Recall that a number of earthquakes woke up the largest volcano of Italy.