A municipality within the epicentre of Friday’s lethal earthquake in Nepal’s Jajarkot district reported no demise from the tremor despite the fact that at the very least 157 folks had been killed in different elements of the district and neighbouring Rukum West, in response to a media report on Sunday.

According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake with epicentre on the Ramidanda village in Barekot Rural Municipality jolted the nation on Friday simply earlier than midnight.

Despite large bodily harm to the homes and public infrastructure, the agricultural municipality totally averted human causality as of Saturday night, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.

“When we see the badly damaged houses, it is difficult to believe how we all cheated death in the area,” mentioned Bir Bahadur Giri, chairperson of the agricultural municipality. “It is a divine land, and many people believe god saved them.”

According to him, 5 folks within the rural municipality had been injured. Of them, two acquired remedy on the native well being workplace whereas three had been flown to a Surkhet-based hospital, the paper reported.

The rural municipality has round 3,500 homes.

“There is hardly any house undamaged by the earthquake. At least 90 per cent of them need to be rebuilt while around 1,000 houses have been badly hit and people have been staying in open spaces,” mentioned Giri.

The District Administration Office (DAO), Jajarkot, confirmed that there have been no deaths in Barekot Rural Municipality.

According to the small print posted by the District Administration Office on Facebook on Saturday night, as many as 105 folks died within the Jajarkot district.

Of them, 55 had been killed in Nalgaad Municipality, 42 folks misplaced their lives in Bheri Municipality, seven in Kushe Rural Municipality and one in Chhedagad Municipality.

The DAO has not reported the demise of any individual at Barekot Rural Municipality, the epicentre of the devastating earthquake, the paper mentioned.

Giri himself escaped demise at the same time as a wall of his home crumbled as a result of tremor. “Not only me, many others are sharing similar experiences,” he mentioned.

One cause for the dearth of casualties at Ramidanda village might be a sparse settlement.

“Nobody was dead [even] in the Silpachaur area nearby that is more densely populated despite massive damage to the houses,” mentioned Dinayat Gharti, chief administrative officer on the rural municipality.

According to specialists, the epicentre doesn’t essentially maintain extra bodily harm than different areas.

“But it is rare and even miraculous for the epicentre to avoid any human causality in a big quake is rare and miraculous,” mentioned Amod Mani Dixit, president of the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET), an establishment fashioned by Nepali professionals working within the area of catastrophe danger administration.

According to him, the size of the harm relies on the place the fault line is and whether or not the homes are sturdy sufficient to resist the jolts.