A moderate earthquake, which the National Seismological Centre said was 5.7 on the Richter scale, hit th Kathmandu Valley at 6:52 pm on Monday evening, sending people out of their homes.
Dr Soma Nath Sapkota, chief of National Seismological Centre in Kathmandu, told a television station that the preliminary information suggested that the epicentre was in Tibet bordering Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal, 136 km north-east of the Kathmandu Valley.
Television channels reported that tremors were felt in eastern Nepal also. According to Thakur Prasad Kandel, seismologist at the Surkhet-based Seismological Centre, some people in Rukum reported that they felt the tremors in the western district also.
No casualties have been reported yet.
Meanwhile, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the quake as 4.6 on the Richter scale.
The USGS showed the epicentre was 36km northeast of Chongdui, Tibet, with its location 28.411°N 86.200°E depth=65.6km (40.7mi).
On September 18, 2011 an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale had rocked the eastern part of Nepal, including the Kathmandu Valley. At least 63 people were killed in India, Nepal and Tibet.
