Rescue workers in Nepal have begun digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their bare hands, searching for survivors after the country's worst earthquake in eight years killed 157 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi.
The quake struck the Jajarkot region in the west of the Himalayan nation at 11.47pm local time yesterday with a 6.4 magnitude, Nepal's National Seismological Centre said.
The German Research Centre for Geosciences measured it at 5.7 and the US Geological Survey at 5.6.
The quake is the deadliest since 2015 when about 9,000 people were killed in two earthquakes.
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