News snippets
- 5.3 aftershock in Sindhupalchowk at 10:00 (Nov 19, 2015)
- 4.2 aftershock in Sindhupalchowk at 15:45 (Nov 12, 2015)
- 4.3 aftershock in Rasuwa at 09:28 on Saturday morning (Oct 31, 2015)
- Number of 4+ aftershock of April 25 Nepal Earthquake reaches 400 (Oct 6, 2015)
- 4.2 aftershock in Dolakha at 17:47 on Tuesday (Oct 6, 2015)
- Foot trail to Langtang Valley opened (Oct 5, 2015)
- Two 4+ aftershocks in Dolakha on Monday (Oct 5, 2015)
- An Oral History of Langtang, the Valley Destroyed by the Nepal Earthquake (Sept 29, 2015)
- 4.6 aftershock in Sindhupalchowk and new 4.6 earthquake in Darchula today (Sept 29, 2015)
- 4.5 aftershock at 12:17 with epicenter 25 km west of Kathmandu (Sept 22, 2015)
- 4.2-magnitude tremor felt after seven days (Sept 17, 2015)
- "Only" 11 people death after a huge 8.3 earthquake in Chile on Thursday (Sept 17, 2015)
- Two 4+ aftershocks so far on Thursday (Aug 27)
- Hundreds of houses & a temporary camp housing 850 earthquake survivors inundated due to flash flood in Bhaktapur (Aug 27)
- If Nepal-like earthquake hits New Delhi, 90 percent of people will be wiped out: HC (Aug 27)
- Minor and fresh 4.1 earthquake in Jumla at 07:46 this morning (Aug 26)
- M4.3 aftershock jolts Capital, epicentre Kalimati (Aug 11)
- 4.9 M aftershock jolts Gorkha (Aug 10)
- Bad weather hampers ferrying of bodies from Langtang (Aug 9)
- Another aftershock above 4M jolts Nepal, Epicenter Kathmandu (July 22)
- Reconstruction gets Rs91 billion (July 15)
- Two M4+ aftershocks this afternoon (July 13)
- 130 quake victims still missing in Rasuwa
- 4.4 aftershock in Sindupalchowk at 17:59 (July 9)
- Human remains found in Langtang. Police suspect it could be of a French national (July 4)
- Two aftershocks felt early morning, one 5.0 in Sindhupalchowk (July 2)
- Two M4 aftershocks this morning (July 1)
- Relocation of high risk settlements within 15 days (June 30)
- Khimti children risk lives to reach school (June 28)
- Earthquake survivors still await cash to build shelter (June 27)
- 4.0 aftershock in Sindhupalchowk at 14:59 (June 24)
- Foreign Guests visit Hanumandhoka, Sankhu (June 24)
- 5.4 magnitude quake strikes Rukum (June 20)
- 237 kids missing after Great Quake (June 18)
- 4 aftershocks recorded in two hours (June 17)
- Nepal could lose ‘over 300k’ visitors this year
- Quake-hit people await cash relief for temporary shelter (June 15)
- 4.1 aftershock in Dolakha at 15:01 (June 14)
- The calm before the storm. Farmers in the Sankhu area aren't able to work in their fields
- People desert Tatopani area fearing more landslips
- Rs 666.3b needed for post-quake rebuilding
June 11
- 5.3 aftershock 43 km NE of Kathmandu, Nepal around 22:00 hours (June 11)
- Patan Durbar Square opens to public from today
- Taplejung landslide death toll reaches 53
- Three M4+ aftershocks on June 11
June 7-10
- Manakamana Temple renovation works start in Gorkha
- Kathmandu valley continues to remain in a high risk zone
- Magnitude 4.6 aftershock strikes, epicenter in Sindhupalchowk
- 53 human skeletons recovered from Langtang area
June 4-6- Two M4+ aftershocks recorded on June 5
- 5 civilians among US chopper crash victims
- Quake-damaged structures mostly built for rent
June 3
- So far 4 tremors above M4 today
- Nepal’s disaster isn’t over yet: it is just moving into the next phase
- Earthquake adds to woes of food-short north Gorkha
June 2
- Four dead in Sindhupalchok chopper crash -
A helicopter returning from Dolakha after distributing relief to earthquake victims crashed in Yamuna Danda VDC in Sindhupalchok district
- 4.0 Aftershock felt at 10:48 am on Tuesday
- Govt says it had prepared for major earthquake
June 1
- Death toll reaches 8,699. Whereabouts of 193 Nepalis, 80 foreigners still unknown
- Schools reopen after 5 weeks
- Langtang lives on in a Kathmandu yard
May 30
- 50,000 more houses may be affected
- Campaign to showcase earthquake-resistant building designs
May 29
- 5.2 aftershock with epicenter in Dhading at 15:44
- Five jolts experienced on Friday
- Affected neighbours of damaged high-rise buildings to hold protest meeting
May 28
- Already 6 aftershocks recorded on Thursday
- Kathmandu grapples with soaring (labour) costs
May 27
- A fresh aftershock with 4.5 in the Richter scale rattled the Kathmandu Valley
- Over 60 settlements in Sindhupalchowk at high risk
May 26
- Everest Hotel is the first 5-star hotel to get red sticker after the earthquake strike
- Over 30,000 jolts recorded in a month
- Icimod study finds that 3,000 landslides occurred across the country since April 25 quake
May 25
- Gorkha earthquake death toll reaches 8,659
- 7 min. aerial video from Langtang Valley after the Earthquakes
- Candlelight vigil marks 1 month since deadly Nepal quake
- Landslides block Kali Gandaki; dam burst unlikely. Experts think earthquake and aftershocks behind landslide
- Quake affects 70 pc houses in Humla
May 23
- Windstorm, rain batters Kathmandu, add to quake victims woes
- Water sources dried up in Barpark after quake
- Farmers left helpless as cattle perish in quakes
May 20-22
- The economic damage from the Nepal earthquake is almost half of the country’s GDP
- In Dolakha, the aftershock was more destructive than the main earthquake
- At least 200 deaths in 1,000 quake-flattened monasteries
- Earthquake death toll reaches 8,631
- 4.4 magnitude aftershock strikes. Epicenter on the border Kathmandu , Lalitpur & Makwanpur districts
- UN: "1 million Nepal children unable to return to school"
- 22 Gorkha villages proposed for resettlement
May 19
- Earthquake: 55 pc of dead are women & girls
- Earthquake victims make scrap bus their home
- Earthquake death toll reaches 8,617
- Engineers in short supply as home owners want safety assurance
May 18
- Govt bans construction of houses over 2-storey
- Govt seeks India, China help to raze over 1,000 Valley buildings
- Earthquake in the Langtang Valley, a personal report
May 17
- Earthquake death toll reaches 8,567
- 160-yr-old model house still standing tall in Bhaktapur
- Over 100 bodies lying under rubble in Singati Bazaar
May 16
- 5.5 magnitude aftershock strikes, 8 aftershocks so far on Saturday
- Reviving tourism is high priority
- Govt to provide 15k instead of zinc sheets
May 15
- Quake death toll reaches 8460
- Langtang, before, during & after the Earthquakes
May 14
- Death toll of May 12 quake is 117 and 2760 people injured
- Horror And Hope After A Massive Earthquake, Through The Eyes Of A 17-Year-Old from Langtang
- Six aftershocks above 4 in Richter scale felt on Thursday
- Life slowly limping back to normalcy in Kathmandu
- Total quake toll reaches 8,250
May 13- Latest update: Death toll of May 12 quake is 91 and 2428 people injured
- Death toll from Tuesday’s quake reaches 76. The quake claimed 56 lifes in Dolakha alone
- Government requests foreign medics to stay put
- Recurring aftershocks sign of receding risks or Nepal disaster presages a coming megaquake
- High-rises, residential houses ‘further affected’
- Government requests foreign medics to stay put
May 12
- Death toll from Tuesday's quake reaches 61
- US Air Force chopper missing in Charikot
- Tuesday’s quake worsens life in Bhaktapur
- Earthquake triggers landslide at Araniko highway
- Dozens dead, more than 1,000 injured / Dolakha district has been hit very bad
- 7.4 earthquake felt in many parts of Nepal at 12:54 on Tuesday May 12, followed by several M6 aftershocks
- 4 people killed after fresh earthquake, number likely to rise
- Rescue operation in avalanche hit Langtang
Epicenter of May 12 Earthquake
- No more foreign troops, says Nepal Army
May 11
- Video: Tatopani bazaar turns into ghost town
- New building code: Tallest Valley house may be three-storeyed
May 10- Earthquake death toll reaches 8,020
- One dies in latest aftershock
- Fresh tremors jolt Nepal
- Efforts on to open North Gorkha-Tibetan entry point to save quake-hit from famine
- Rising from the rubbles: The three Durbar Squares of the Valley
- Fresh avalanches force workers to call off search
May 9
- 'Million children left out of school'
- Death toll reaches 7,912
- Scores died in Capital during Saturday mass
Location of April 25, 2015 earthquake (7.8)
May 8
- Nepal earthquake rocks its economy
- 'Don't hike house rent': Govt tells house owners
- Mild tremors continue to jolt nation
- Relief materials 'too little too late', lament Barpak quake victims
May 7- The shocking reason why some Nepalese workers in Qatar can't go to earthquake victims' funerals
- 'Nepal earthquake death toll rises to 8,413'
- Thousands of Nepalese pray for earthquake victims / Candle-lit vigil in memory of quake victims
- NRNA to build 1,000 quake-resistant homes
- An Open Letter by Prashant Da Gunner to #IndianMedia
- Devastating April 25 quake toll reaches 7,759
- Traffic resumes on damaged highways
May 6
- Death toll in deadly quake reaches 7,652 and nearly 300,000 houses completely destroyed
- Top three leaders visit Langtang where around 300 people were killed
- Water shortage worsens in Valley after quake
May 5
- Death toll from Great Quake put at 7,611
- 80% tourists cancel reservations in quake’s wake
- Quake damages 95% school buildings in Sindhupalchowk
May 4
- Report from Langtang, one of the 'Worst-affected' villages
- Quake death toll reaches 7,365 across the country
- 575 schools in 36 districts completely damaged by quake
- 2 rescued alive from Gorkha on tenth day of earthquake
May 3
- A centenarian rescued alive after eight days
- Devastating quake death toll climbs to 7056
- Tribhuvan International Airport has imposed a landing ban on heavy cargo planes
May 1 & 2
- Airport customs holding up aid relief
- 5.1-magnitude quake rocks Gorkha yet again and triggers landslides
- Surya Binayak and Panauti unaffected by quake
- Death toll climbs towards 6500
- Drone footage shot by CNN shows villages in Nepal in need of aid, but are unreachable due to landslides
- 50 bodies recovered from Dharara
- 710 houses ravaged in Udaypur by Gorkha earthquake
- videos of the moment the moment of the big earthquake
April 30
- Death toll climbs towards 6000
- 15-year-old boy found alive after 132 hours / Man rescued after 98 hours in Nuwakot
- great earthquake wipes out Barpak
April 29
- People leave Kathmandu en masse (338,932 leave by Wednesday)
- Photographs of Earthquake Devastation in Nepal
- many people rescued from Langtang region
- Anger at leaders
- Earthquake Moved the Whole City of Kathmandu 10 Feet south
- Relief starts reaching remote villages
April 28
- Thousands queue at New Baneshwor to catch a bus back home
- Earthquake toll passes 5.000
- 8 million people affected in Nepal
April 27
- Quake toll over 4.200
- Villages Near Nepal Earthquake’s Epicenter Are Desperate as Death Toll Tops 3,800
- Death toll passes 3400 and continues to rise
- 45 tremors above 4.5 in Richter scale felt till date
- How to Help the Relief Effort in Nepal
- Rain likely for next 24 hours
April 26- The death toll by earthquakes that struck Nepal on Saturday and Sunday claimed a total of 2,400 lives and injured 5,850 till Sunday afternoon
- Avalanche overwhelms Langtang village, over 100 feared dead, situation looks very bad
- 217 missing in Everest region
- Experts: 32 times more devastating earthquake to hit Nepal and India
- Huge aftershock on Sunday (6.7)
April 25- More than 2000 deaths
- Thousands and thousands are sleeping outside in the rain
- Kathmandu turns into a tent city as night falls
- safety check tools from Facebook & Google
- Probably over 1200 deaths after devastating earthquake in Nepal
- Quake avalanche kills 18 at Nepal's Everest Base camp
- Around 450 death according to Nepali police
- Kathmandu Airport closed
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