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Facts about Nepal Earthquake

A strong (7.8) earthquake hit Nepal in the area near Barpak, a mountain village between capital Kathmandu and tourist town Pokhara. The earthquake was followed by many powerful aftershocks and a very powerful one (6.7) hit Nepal on Sunday April 26.

The earthquakes caused extensive damage to buildings and thousands of deaths and injuries and was even felt in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.

Many (historic) buildings collapsed, temples have been ruined, roads destroyed. Nearly 8000 deaths in Nepal and tens of deaths in India & Tibet. The quake was followed by more than 430 aftershocks and another huge earthquake (6.8) on May 12.

From Country Chic to Diva in Down - Chatham
Kent’s Heather Geluk
shares how rural roots have led to Himalayan heights…

(article featured in the January/February 2015 edition of SportsXpress.ca -- the 2015 Launch Edition, highlighting teams and people from all over Chatham-Kent)

I remember dragging my red plastic sled up the
hill, breaking trail through knee-deep snow. Gasping, I took the