UPDATE 1:40 am: The National Seismological Centre said it recorded a light tremor of local magnitude 4.6 at 1:07 am in the wee hours of Friday.
The tremor has been listed as an aftershock of the Nepal earthquake, also called Gorkha earthquake, that hit Gorkha district of western Nepal on April 25.
The coordinates of the epicentre are given as 28.05°N, 85.05°E. The NSC’s GoogleImager shows the location lies north of Kimtang.
Its shaking, which lasted for a few seconds, was felt across western and central Nepal, including the Kathmandu Valley, where many people woke up in the frigid, wee hours, anxiously.
The NSC records show that it was 427th significant aftershock of the April 25 earthquake.