An earthquake of local magnitude 6.4 occurred on Friday around Ramidanda in Jajarkot district at 23:47 (1802 GMT), Nepal's National Seismological Centre said.
Jajarkot is about 500 km west of the capital Kathmandu. There were no immediate details of any damage.
"This was a big earthquake. We have heard some damage to houses. We are collecting details. So far no reports of human injuries. Police and army have been mobilised," Suresh Sunar, a top official in Jajarkot, told Reuters. The German Research Centre for Geosciences pegged the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.2, at a depth of 10 km .Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru, Aditya Kalra, and Gopal Sharma in Kathmandu; Editing by Chris Reese and Jonathan OatisShell's finance chief said on Thursday the firm had exited a power purchase agreement for the planned SouthCoast windfarm off the coast of Massachusetts, agreeing to pay a penalty rather than face rising costs for building the project.
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