A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Nepal early Tuesday morning, with its epicentre located 93 kilometres northeast of Lobuche. The tremor, recorded at 6:35 am IST, was also felt across Bihar and parts of North India,

The most powerful of these, measuring 7.1 in magnitude, was the strongest in this region since the devastating April 2015 earthquake in Nepal that had killed about 10,000 people.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday, according to Chinese authorities. It killed dozens of people and shook buildings in neighboring Nepal,