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.
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.