Posted on 04/25/2015 2:50:24 AM PDT by topher
BREAKING NEWS – At least 71 people died after a powerful magnitude-7.9 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley around noon Saturday, Nepal's Home Ministry says.
Sky News also reports that at least 50 people are trapped underneath rubble of the city’s iconic Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu’s landmarks built by Nepal’s royal rulers in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognized historical monument.
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Notice from Ministry of Defense!
“All movement to Kathmandu kept on hold till 1600 Hrs due to fresh tremors in Nepal.”
Hard to imagine an ongoing catastrophe like this.
They have so many obstacles,it’s mountainous to begin with.....the ground isn’t solid...and it’s raining there and cold nights...now with these after shocks they’ve closed the airport which stops their aide ....not to mention roads hard to travel....it’s going to take a lot of work to help these people survive this....and these after shocks can go on for a couple months.
Beautiful, but deadly area.
It would appear so......
Airplanes which were going to land at the airport have returned because of all the after shocks....if they get too much rain then they’ll be facing landslides as well...what a terrible situation the rescuer teams are facing....
Pretty amazing there hasn’t been any news about looting or crime....course it’s early but still....had it been hear you’d see it happening asap!
Some updates:
....”Electricity has been cut off, communication systems are congested and hospital are crowded and are running out of room for storing ‘dead’ bodies.......
..... Everest....six rescue helicopters had managed to reach the mountain on Sunday after the weather improved overnight....Seventeen have been reported dead so far and 61 are injured....People being stretchered out as choppers land — half a dozen this morning,” Kannampilly said in a text message. “Weather clear, some snowfall.”
...... a 62-strong Chinese rescue team arrived with a team of sniffer dogs.
......number known to have died in Nepal had risen to 2,152
.....Officials in India said the toll there now stood at 57, while Chinese state media said 17 people had been killed in the Tibet region
....medics were working out of a tent set up in a parking lot to cope with the number of injured, while some patients were too scared to stay in the building.....mostly children have been treated...adults with head trauma.
I was in a 7.5 in Mexico City in 1957. The death toll in the city was relatively light, no more than 200, but it was much worse toward Acapulco. At any rate there were no significant aftershocks, but I would be lying down some times and feel a faint tremor coming through the earth. This went on for weeks. After the recent Virginia 5.8 earthquake which I think was around 4 in my location, I also felt at least 3 aftershocks. One was so faint that I wouldn’t have noticed it except I had a cup of water next to where I was sitting and the surface started to quiver. Didn’t feel it otherwise, but sure enough it was announced the next day for the time I had clocked my water cups behavior. I just hope their earthquake was the big one, not a preliminary shake. Heard a scientist talking about the big Japanese quake/tsunami. He said that one was 50 TIMES stronger than this one in Nepal. I remember decades ago there was an extremely strong earthquake in Assam, a neighbor of Nepal.
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