The earthquake in Nepal is the country’s deadliest since 2015.
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More than 150 people were killed in a devastating earthquake that struck rural western Nepal late Friday night, according to local officials, marking the country’s deadliest earthquake since 2015 and the latest deadly earthquake in recent months — and officials expect the death toll to keep rising.Key Facts
The magnitude 5.6 earthquake came just before midnight local time, devastating western Nepal’s Jajarkot district, with the quake’s epicenter roughly 300 miles west of the country’s capital of Kathmandu.
A magnitude 4 aftershock followed the initial earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, though Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center reported the initial quake had a magnitude of 6.
