KATHMANDU: Nepal’s National Seismological Centre recorded a tremor of local magnitude 4.2 in Nuwakot district in the wee hours of Sunday morning as the country is marking the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake.

It has been listed as an aftershock of the last year’s ML 7.6 earthquake that hit Barpak of Gorkha district.

According to the NSC, it has recorded more than 30,000 aftershocks of the Gorkha earthquake in a year, but data of only 447 significant aftershocks were processed to alert the public.

The aftershock was recorded at a location with coordinates 28.08°, 85.13°, north of Bhalche, at around 2:16 am. The epicentre lies northwest of the Kathmandu Valley.

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