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2. INTRODUCTION
 25TH APRIL 2015 PROVED TO BE A BLACK DAY FOR THE
PEOPLE OF NEPAL AND ITS NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES.
THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED ON 25 APRIL 2015
AT 11:56 A.M. N.S.T KILLED OVER 8,000 PEOPLE AND
INJURED MORE THAN 21,000.

3. EPICENTER AND MAGNITUDE
 ITS EPICENTER WAS EAST OF LAMJUNG DISTRICT AT BARPAK, GORKHA
 THE EARTHQUAKE WAS MEASURED TO BE OF 7.8 ON RICHTER’S SCALE
I.E CONSIDERED AS A MEGAQUAKE CAUSING MASS DESTRUCTION.

4. WHY EARTHQUAKES IN NEPAL
DEVASTATING?
 THE PLATE TECTONIC THEORY HAS STATED THAT “ THE
INDIAN PLATE BOUNDRY WHICH WAS EARLIER THE PART OF
GONDWANA LAND GOT SEPARATED FROM THE LANDMASS.
THIS NORTHWARD DRIFT RESULTED IN COLLISION OF THE
INDIAN PLATE WITH THE EURASIAN PLATE.
 AS A RESULT OF CONVERGENCE OF THESE PLATES LEAD TO
FORMATION OF MOUNTAIN RANGES KNOWN NAS
HIMALAYAS.

5. WHY EARTHQUAKES IN NEPAL
DEVASTATING?
 THE CONVERGENCE RATE BETWEEN THE PLATES IN CENTRAL
NEPAL IS ABOUT 45 MM (1.8 IN) PER YEAR.
 THE EARTHQUAKE'S EFFECTS WERE AMPLIFIED IN
KATHMANDU AS IT SITS ON THE KATHMANDU BASIN, WHICH
CONTAINS UP TO 600 M (2,000 FT) OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ,
REPRESENTING THE INFILLING OF A LAKE.

6. SOURCE: NAT GEO

7. ECONOMIC LOSS
 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE MADE HOMELESS WITH
ENTIRE VILLAGES FLATTENED, ACROSS MANY DISTRICTS OF THE
COUNTRY. CENTURIES-OLD BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED AT
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE KATHMANDU VALLEY,
INCLUDING SOME AT THE KATHMANDU DURBAR SQUARE, THE PATAN
DURBAR SQUARE, THE BHAKTAPUR DURBAR SQUARE, THE CHANGU
NARAYAN TEMPLE, THE BOUDHANATH STUPA AND
THE SWAYAMBHUNATH STUPA.
 THE TOTAL ESTIMATED LOSS WAS OF 10 BILLION $ I.E 50% (APPROX.) OF
NEPAL’S GDP

8. HUMAN LOSS
• THE EARTHQUAKE KILLED MORE THAN 8,800 IN NEPAL AND INJURED NEARLY THREE
TIMES AS MANY. THE RURAL DEATH TOLL MAY HAVE BEEN MINIMIZED BY THE FACT
THAT MOST VILLAGERS WERE OUTDOORS WORKING WHEN THE QUAKE HIT. AS OF 15
MAY, 6,271 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 1,700 FROM THE 12 MAY AFTERSHOCK, WERE STILL
RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR THEIR INJURIES. NEARLY 3.5 MILLION PEOPLE WERE LEFT
HOMELESS.
• INDIA: A TOTAL OF 78 DEATHS WERE REPORTED IN INDIA - INCLUDING 58 IN BIHAR,
16 IN UTTAR PRADESH, 3 IN WEST BENGAL AND 1 IN RAJASTHAN.
• CHINA: 27 DEAD AND 4 MISSING, ALL FROM THE TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION.

9. AFTERSHOCKS OF THE QUAKE
 A SERIES OF AFTERSHOCKS BEGAN IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MAINSHOCK, AT
INTERVALS OF 15–30 MINUTES, WITH ONE AFTERSHOCK REACHING 6.6 WITHIN 34
MINUTES OF THE INITIAL QUAKE. A MAJOR AFTERSHOCK OF MAGNITUDE
6.9 OCCURRED ON 26 APRIL 2015 IN THE SAME REGION AT 12:54 NST, WITH AN
EPICENTER LOCATED ABOUT 17 KM SOUTH OF KODARI, NEPAL
 THE AFTERSHOCK CAUSED FRESH AVALANCHES ON MOUNT EVEREST AND WAS FELT IN
MANY PLACES IN NORTHERN INDIA
INCLUDING KOLKATA,SILIGURI, JALPAIGURI AND ASSAM.
 THE AFTERSHOCK CAUSED A LANDSLIDE ON THE KOSHI HIGHWAY WHICH BLOCKED
THE SECTION OF THE ROAD BETWEEN BHEDETAR AND MULGHAT. ANOTHER
AFTERSHOCK ALSO HIT LATER THAT NIGHT.

10. By Kartikeya Agarwal