In April, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, killing more than 9,000 people and flattening entire villages.

So when he heard on April 25 that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake had struck near Gorkha, Nepal, not far from Kathmandu, he thought he knew what to expect—utter devastation throughout Kathmandu and a ...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck Nepal on Sunday, as reported by the National Center for Seismology. The shallow depth of 10 ...

California Institute of Technology. (2015, August 6). April 2015 earthquake in Nepal reviewed in detail. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 08 ...

In this April 25, 2015 photo, collapsed buildings are seen at the Durbar Square following a poweful earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

An earthquake of 3.9 magnitude jolted Nepal on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.

Just to the west of April’s earthquake, however, there hasn’t been a huge earthquake since 1505—and that one weighed in around magnitude 8.5, nearly 22 times as energetic as April’s quake.

Still reeling from a massive earthquake in April, Nepal just got hit with a devastating magnitude 7.3 aftershock. The latest earthquake is large enough to ...

Villagers rebuilding houses on April 7, 2016, in Barpak, in Gorkha district, Nepal, at the epicenter of the 2015 earthquakes, which were the worst natural disaster to befall Nepal in more than ...

FILE — In this Sunday, April 26, 2015 file photo, rescue workers remove debris as they search for victims of an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. ... Nepal, Friday, April 25, 2025.

Everything I love about my neighborhood in old Kathmandu made it a dangerous place on April 25, the day a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Nepal. The narrow streets, crowded alleys and beautiful ...

In this April 27, 2015 photo, a Nepalese man walks over fallen rocks and past a crushed car on the way to Dhunche, Nepal, a village in Langtang National Park, two days after a 7.8-magnatude ...