Posted on 05/12/2015 1:58:46 AM PDT by John W
A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 died in a devastating quake.
The latest earthquake hit near the town of Namche Bazaar, near Mount Everest.
The US Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 7.3. An earthquake on 25 April, centred in western Nepal, had a magnitude of 7.8.
The latest tremor was felt in northern India and Bangladesh.
In the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, which was badly damaged last month, people rushed out of buildings as the quake struck at 12:35 local time (07:50 GMT).
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Just saw this on Yahoo! about 15 minutes ago. Terrible.
Mental note... Avoid Nepal for a little while
Poor people.
My earthquake app just showed another quake in the same area: 6.3
Yikes
Those plates are shaking
Dear God.
If it were New York, DC, or San Francisco, the cartoon might make sense. Hard to attribute God’s wrath to the death and destruction inflicted on Nepal. Last I checked, sherpas are not on anyone’s hit list for misconduct.
This is terrible.
Those people, have been through so much already.
And six above mag 5.
Lengthy article from Sky News:
http://news.sky.com/story/1482289/nepal-hit-by-another-powerful-earthquake
You don’t grow a mountain to 29,028 feet by depositing a few millimeters of dust on it every 1000 years or so - it takes some major earth movement, like the Indian Subcontinent making a direct run at Asia, with a boatload of momentum (and apparently still some of that momentum).
Also felt in Bhutan
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