More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more are injured after an earthquake struck Nepal early Saturday morning.
The temblor occurred around midnight local time in the western region of Karnali Province, located about 250 miles from the Nepalese capital city of Kathmandu. The shake registered as a magnitude-5.6 earthquake according to the U.S. Geological Survey. However, Nepal's National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center registered it significantly stronger at a magnitude of 6.4. A number of powerful aftershocks also struck the region throughout the early morning.
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