KATHMANDU: The National Seismological Centre said the tremor felt at 3:07 pm on Wednesday was another aftershock of the April 25 earthquake last year.

It was measured at 5.4 local magnitude with the epicentre in Sindhupalchok district in central Nepal.

It was the third aftershock above magnitude 5.0 in February.

The NSC records show that the epicentre lied northeast of Sindhupalchok district headquarters, Chautara.

Earlier at 11:57 pm on Sunday, a magnitude-5.5 aftershock was felt  in western and central Nepal. Its epicentre was in Gorkha district, close to Barpak where the devastating ML 7.6 earthquake originated on April 25.

The NSC had recorded an ML 5.5 aftershock with its epicentre in Sindhupalchok district on February 5.

After the devastating April 25 earthquake of ML 7.6, the National Seismological Centre has recorded as many as 435 aftershocks of local magnitude 4.0 or above till today.

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KATHMANDU: A strong tremor was felt in Kathmandu at 3:07 pm on Wednesday.

Epicentre and magnitude are immediately unknown.

The tremor created a panic among Kathmandu denizens who have been feeling aftershocks of different magnitude since the magnitude-7.6 earthquake on April 25 last year.