Kathmandu: The death toll from the April 25 quake in Nepal on Sunday topped 8,500, making the temblor the deadliest of all times for the Himalayan nation, triggering as many as 240 aftershocks and injuring around 20,000 people.
The monster temblor last month and its aftershocks killed as many as 8,567 people till Sunday.
The number of people killed due to the April 25 temblor reaching 8,426 and the number of people killed from last week's quake rising to 141, according to Nepal Police.
The number of injured from the April 25 temblor touched 17,884 while that from the last week's reached 3,142.
The 1934 quake had been the country's worst disaster of all times. The 8.1-magnitude temblor centred near Mount Everest had caused widespread devastation in Nepal and neighbouring Bihar.
The April 25 quake hit central and western Nepal, especially Gorkha and Sindhupalchowk areas, while the 1934 temblor caused massive destruction in Kathmandu.
The number of houses destroyed in the last month's quake is over 2,00,000, more than twice the number of households wrecked in the 1934 temblor.
According to the report, the number of houses wrecked in the earthquake 81 years ago stood at 80,893.
Two fresh tremors jolted central and eastern parts of quake-hit Nepal today, a day after eight aftershocks including one of moderate intensity struck, taking the total number of aftershocks to 240 that occurred after the deadly April 25 quake and had a magnitude of 4 or more on the Richter scale.
A 4.6-magnitude tremor was felt at 11.30 am with epicentre at Ramechhap district in eastern Nepal. Earlier, a 4.4-magnitude aftershock was recorded at 5 am with epicentre at Dolakha in central Nepal near Kathmandu, according to National Seismological Centre.
On Saturday, a 5.5-magnitude tremor and seven milder aftershocks jolted the battered nation, triggering a fresh wave of panic among the devastated people in Nepal who have been forced to stay in the open for over three weeks now.
Aftershocks had persisted one month after the 1934 quake too. The April 25 temblor has damaged property worth US $10 billion, according to an estimate done by the Nepal government and some 8,00,000 people have been directly affected.
The 1934 Great Nepal-Bihar Earthquake, with its epicentre about 9.5 km south of Mt Everest, had killed several thousands people on both sides of the Himalayas and practically flattened Kathmandu Valley besides levelling several districts in Bihar like Munger, Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga, destroying houses and grand palaces.
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