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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People in the streets afraid more buildings will collapse with after shocks....34 minutes after the first quake a second one hit at 7.0

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Perhaps you missed my use of the word ‘horrible’...

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It said the quake hit at 11.56am local time.....because it was a shallow quake it was about 16 times more powerful than the 7.0 quake that devastated Haiti in 2010.

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Nepal earthquake triggers avalanches in Mount Everest...sources of Nepal’s largest Everest expeditions reported about landslides.... The base camp suffered serious damage as a result of the avalanche.... At least eight persons were killed after the earthquake triggered a massive avalanche near the base camp of Mount Everest.

A climber from an European team said his tent started rocking and moving as the earthquake hit the region. He said huge boulders started breaking around them from the side of the mountain

http://www.oneindia.com/international/earthquake-8-killed-in-mount-everest-avalanche-1727665.html

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Alex Gavan ‏@AlexGAVAN 6h6 hours ago Everest base camp huge earthquaqe then huge avalanche from pumori....Running for life from my tent... Unhurt... Many many people up the mountain.

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Kathmandu's Darbar Square, a World Heritage site, in ruins after earthquake.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

[aumrl]

Must be caused by all that FRACKING!!!

my thots too.
apparently we have a consensus

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Fault line across India/Nepal and Pakistan.

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The things that could make this tragedy much worse are that the epicenter was relatively shallow (only 15 km below the surface) and its close proximity to the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. The possibility of thousands dead cannot be discounted.

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People jumped from balconies, ran out of buildings into the streets

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Here's another shot of that tower...it's just completely gone! They said many people are buried under all that rubble

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This was posted along with the destruction at one of the news sites

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wow

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[Mom MD]

Thats OK, some freepers think its just a reason to make tired old jokes about fracking. Forget the thousands dead and hurting.

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Also heard that hotels used by tourists in Katmandu were affected

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Base camp at Mt. Everest before and after the quake

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You can see the piles of boulders the skier mentioned in his tweet when he said he could see them falling....

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Many roads badly destroyed