Cover image via Prakesh Mahetma & AFP & AP Photos
1. A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal at midday on Saturday, 25th April 2015. The earthquake epicenter hit 80km northwest of Kathmandu.
Rescue workers remove debris as they search for victims of the earthquake in the city of Bhaktapur found in the east of the Kathmandu Valley.
Image via The Daily Mail
2. The initial reported death toll of 1,000 people quickly surpass 3,300 as of 27 April 2015
3. At least 6,500 people are reportedly injured, but these numbers are still rising
Nepalis mourn the death of a relative at a mass cremation at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu on April 26, 2015.
Image via Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images
4. For two days, a series of aftershocks continued to shake the country, further traumatizing the people. One aftershock recorded a magnitude of 6.7.
5. The earthquake and tremors were so powerful it could be felt as far as New Delhi and across parts of Bangladesh, Tibet region of China, and Pakistan. Deaths have been reported in India (60 fatalities) and China (17 fatalities).
6. This is the first earthquake of such devastation to hit central Nepal in 81 years. In 1934, the 8.1 magnitude Nepal-Bihar earthquake killed 10,000 people.
7. The quake triggered several avalanches in the landlocked mountainous country, especially at Mount Everest
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8. The snow swept away tents and people. 17 climbers and sherpas have been killed, 37 injured, and dozens still missing at Mount Everest. About 800 people are trapped in the base camp waiting for rescue.
Here, rescuers use a makeshift stretcher to carry an injured person after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake flattened parts of Everest Base Camp
Image via Robert Schmidt/AFP
9. In the city, century-old ancient landmarks and temples in the Kathmandu Valley, which were the pride of the nation, were left to rubble. Four of it were Unesco World Heritage sites.
10. In the rural areas, 80% of houses were destroyed
11. Victims were trapped under metres and metres of rubble. Rescue team had to remove the rubble brick by brick looking for survivors, some of which were pulled out from under dead bodies.
12. With people terrified of more earthquakes, tent cities have now sprung up in Kathmandu with many feeling safer shivering in the cold Himalayan mountain air than in buildings
Tents are seen from an airplane window in an open field next to Tribhuwan International Airport on April 26, 2015, a day after a massive quake in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Image via Wally Santana/AP Photo
13. Hospital workers had to stretch patients out onto the streets and conduct operations under makeshift tents as it was too dangerous to treat them indoors
14. People are already conducting mass cremation for the victims
People burn the bodies of earthquake victims at a mass cremation at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu on April 26, 2015. (PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images
Image via Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images
15. Grief-stricken Nepal is now short on water, electricity, food, and medical supplies
Family members break down during the cremation of earthquake victims in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, April 26, 2015.
Image via Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo
16. The international community has pledged rescue support and millions of dollars in aid packages to Nepal
17. Wisma Putra has announced that no Malaysians were injured or killed in the quake. A group of climbers from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) managed to survive the avalanche in Mount Everest.
Dramatic photographs from Everest basecamp in the aftermath of the Nepalese earthquake have emerged. Pictures taken by AFP's South Asia photo chief Roberto Schmidt show an enormous cloud of snow and debris cascading down the mountain as survivors recalled the horrifying moment that disaster struck on Saturday.
Image via Robert Schmidt/AFP
"I ran and it just flattened me. I tried to get up and it flattened me again," Singapore-based marine biologist George Foulsham told AFP at base camp. "I couldn't breathe, I thought I was dead. When I finally stood up, I couldn't believe it passed me over and I was almost untouched."
Image via Robert Schmidt/AFP
More photos from Nepal:
Nepalese novice Buddhist monks offer prayers for earthquake victims at the Bodhgaya Mahabodhi Temple in the Indian town of Bodhgaya on April 26, 2015.
Image via STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images
A Nepalese woman holds the hand of her relative killed in an earthquake at a hospital, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015.
Image via Manish Swarup/AP Photo
A Nepalese man and woman hold each other in Kathmandu's Durbar Square.
Image via Prakash Mathema/AFP
