At least 71 killed as 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal

Wall Street Journal graphics; AP & Getty photos; Fox News ^ | Published April 25, 2015 | Foxnews.com

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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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Estimated 300,000 Tourists in Nepal at time of Quake

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“Hopefully we (the USA) are flying in help as we speak.”

May not be easy. I heard Kathmandu airport is damaged.

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Rush to locate those still alive, and the bodies as a health safety factor...

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$ 1 million .....(.Initially ) ..’US Agency for International Developmen”t (US Aid).... Office of foreign Disaster Chief ‘Jereemy Konyndyk’.........15:20 GMT - The US Agency “for International Development”... says it is sending a disaster response team (DART) to earthquake-hit Nepal and has authorised an ‘initial’ $1 million to address immediate needs

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Here's the one I mentioned last night...when you asked about tourists hotels

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Historical Buildings in the Square..gone...

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Buildings leaning into one another...and danger of failing further...people in these areas were not prepared for this...so International help will be on the ground pretty fast....only one runway is operational in Kat

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Rescue and relief teams preparing and or on the way.

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Peopel sleeping on the street for fear of unsafe buildings

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Nepal’s devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming.

... Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled this city. They knew they were racing the clock, but they didn’t know when what they feared would strike.

“It was sort of a nightmare waiting to happen,” said seismologist James Jackson, head of the earth sciences department at the University of Cambridge in England. “Physically and geologically what happened is exactly what we thought would happen.”

But he didn’t expect the massive quake that struck Saturday to happen so soon. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed at least 1,394 people and caused widespread destruction.

Nightfall after an avalanche triggered by a massive earthquake swept across Everest Base Camp, Nepal on Saturday, April 25, 2015.

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Link for above photo and article

http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/04/25/experts-gathered-in-nepal-a-week-ago-to-ready-for-aftermath-of-earthquake