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The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) [8] [11] killed 8,962 people and injured 21,952 across the countries of Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh. It occurred at 11:56 Nepal Standard Time on Saturday 25 April 2015, with a magnitude of 7.8 M w [ 1 ] or 8.1 M s [ 12 ] and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X ( Extreme ).
The Indian Air Force evacuated over 500 citizens from Nepal between 25 and 26 April, and hundreds later on 26 April. [17] [18] Ten flights were scheduled for 26 April, which airlifted army forward hospitals, teams of doctors, nurses, and paramedics, engineering task forces, water, food, National Disaster Response Force teams, medical personnel and equipment, blankets, stretchers, and tents.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal with epicenter at Gorkha at a depth of 15.0 km ... 2015 in Nepal.
APRIL AND MAY 2015. The worst earthquake in Nepal's history struck at four minutes to midday on April 25. It measured magnitude 7.8 and was followed by a second tremor 17 days later, killing 9,000 ...
The Nepal humanitarian crisis (2015-2017) developed owing to a lack of action following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks. It was compounded by political factors as a result of the 2015 Nepal blockade. Victims of the earthquakes were still living in flimsy, temporary shelters more than a year after the initial devastation.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Defense says that their fast response relief efforts in Nepal likely reduced the scale of further disaster following the earthquake. [5] Another earthquake on May 12 of M W 7.3 struck the same general region of Kathmandu on the same fault as the April earthquake. Humanitarian relief efforts were ...
Earthquake experts say they knew Nepal would be hit by a natural disaster. According to the Newser about 50 scientists from around the world traveled to Kathmandu one week ago to figure out how to ...
The remains of Dharahara after the 2015 earthquake. On 25 April 2015, at 11:56 NST, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.8 (M w), hit Kathmandu and its surrounding region, leading to the collapse of the tower. [5] The earthquake's epicenter was approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) east-southeast of Lamjung, Nepal. [4]