A massive earthquake shook
Nepal this morning Tuesday May 12,2015, killing dozens of people and sending thousands more in the capital Kathmandu rushing out in to the streets.
Nepalese people gather in the streets of Kathmandu after the 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit the country
People gather in a temporary shelter in the city of Bhaktapur following the morning's quakes
The
U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 7.3 and struck
in an isolated, conservation area 42 miles west of the town of Namche
Bazar, close to Mount Everest and the border with Tibet.
A
Nepalese government official says the death toll from the massive
earthquake has risen to at least 36. Laxmi Dhakal added that the quake
also left at least 981 people injured after it triggered landslides and
caused buildings to collapse.
At
least five more people were killed in Indian states bordering Nepal -
one in Uttar Pradesh and four in Bihar, officials said, and Chinese
media reported one person died in Tibet after rocks fell on a car.
Shockwaves
were felt over thousands of miles and as far apart as Dhaka, the
capital of Bangladesh, and the Indian capital New Delhi, where buildings
swayed for more than a minute and people scurried into the streets.
It comes less than three weeks after a devastating 7.8 magnitude quake
killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed hundreds of
thousands of homes in the region.
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