Gorkha Earthquake

India has released nearly $28 million financial aid to the Nepal government for rebuilding houses in Nuwakot and Gorkha districts that were damaged in the devastating earthquake in 2015.

The entire Himalayan region may be under the risk of earthquakes more devastating than last year's Nepal earthquake that killed over 8,000 people, due to the immense build-up of strain in the fault underlying the area, a new study has found.

For the villagers of Sirdibas in Nepal, one of hundreds of isolated mountain communities dotting the vast Himalayan region, a trip to the nearest market meant a difficult three-day journey by donkey even before the recent 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal at 11.30 am today with its epicentre at Barpark in Gorkha district, seismologist Mukunda Bhattarai from the National Seismology Centre (NSC) said.

As the helicopter swooped over Nepal's lush Gorkha Valley in search of earthquake survivors, the 10-foot 'HELP!' sign spelled out by a desperate group of foreign trekkers couldn't fail to grab the pilot's attention.

Four days after a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, the country's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has said that the number of dead could be 10,000. Over 5,000 are confirmed dead and thousands are injured. Authorities are still trying to determine the extent of the disaster in the Gorkha region and neighbouring Lamjung where the epicentre lay.

Hundreds of Nepalis are today fleeing the capital Kathmandu, for the plains, following the massive earthquake on Saturday that has so far killed 3,726 people and injured 6,500. At Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu chaos continued today with hundreds of people waiting to be evacuated. Indian choppers are being used to evacuate people f...

India has released nearly $28 million financial aid to the Nepal government for rebuilding houses in Nuwakot and Gorkha districts that were damaged in the devastating earthquake in 2015.

The entire Himalayan region may be under the risk of earthquakes more devastating than last year's Nepal earthquake that killed over 8,000 people, due to the immense build-up of strain in the fault underlying the area, a new study has found.

For the villagers of Sirdibas in Nepal, one of hundreds of isolated mountain communities dotting the vast Himalayan region, a trip to the nearest market meant a difficult three-day journey by donkey even before the recent 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal at 11.30 am today with its epicentre at Barpark in Gorkha district, seismologist Mukunda Bhattarai from the National Seismology Centre (NSC) said.

As the helicopter swooped over Nepal's lush Gorkha Valley in search of earthquake survivors, the 10-foot 'HELP!' sign spelled out by a desperate group of foreign trekkers couldn't fail to grab the pilot's attention.

Four days after a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, the country's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has said that the number of dead could be 10,000. Over 5,000 are confirmed dead and thousands are injured. Authorities are still trying to determine the extent of the disaster in the Gorkha region and neighbouring Lamjung where the epicentre lay.

Hundreds of Nepalis are today fleeing the capital Kathmandu, for the plains, following the massive earthquake on Saturday that has so far killed 3,726 people and injured 6,500. At Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu chaos continued today with hundreds of people waiting to be evacuated. Indian choppers are being used to evacuate people f...