At least 149 people died after a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.1 hit the city late on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and spreading panic on the anniversary of 1985 quake that claimed lives of 10,000 people. As per reports, about 49 buildings crumbled following the massive quake with rescuing teams retrieving nearly 20 million people. People trapped under the debris forwarded WhatsApp messages to families and relatives asking for help. While […]

  New research partly funded by the Indian government to forecast earthquakes has made a grim prediction: a great quake never seen in centuries could strike Uttarakhand, an area home to 10 million people. A 700-year-old ‘fault’ beneath the state has reached a tipping point, an Indo-Australian team of experts has concluded after gruelling lab and on-site investigations, including the scouring of three river-beds – those of the Bhagirathi, Alaknanda […]

  Nepal: Heritage Lost To Nature’s Forces Nepal is still grappling to come to terms with Saturday’s devastating quake and the gruesome aftershocks that continued till Sunday. As the death toll continues to rise and grieving family members try to come to terms with this inexplicable loss, there is one loss which perhaps has no hope of resurrection or restoration. Yes I mean the architectural legacy of Nepal that succumbed […]

LONDON: There is still time to save lives — that’s why governments and aid agencies on Sunday rushed doctors, volunteers and equipment to Nepal without waiting for the dust to settle.   UN spokeswoman Orla Fagan, who is heading to Nepal, said preventing the spread of disease is one of the most important tasks facing aid workers who are arriving.   “There are 14 international medical teams on the way […]

Kathmandu:  Nearly 66 lakh people in Nepal have been affected by the devastating earthquake, the United Nations office in Kathmandu said on Sunday.   The earthquake triggered an avalanche in the Mount Everest area, burying parts of the Everest base camp.”Rescue and relief operations may be hampered with the monsoon fast approaching,” said the UN.   The United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office and other UN agencies will work under the […]

                                                                                It is day two after Saturday’s devastating earthquake crippled normal life across Nepal. Measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale and with more than 1800 people dead, it was the worst […]

Nepal’s devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming. Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled this city. They knew they were racing the clock, but they didn’t know when […]

New Delhi:  More than 35 person were killed in India after strong tremors were felt across North and East India following a massive earthquake of 7.9 intensity hitting Nepal today.   Two persons were killed in barabanki of UP while 25 others have died in Bihar and three in North Bengal.   As many as 1500 people were killed in a major earthquake that rocked Nepal on Saturday, a Nepalese […]

— At least 379 people have been killed, and 1,881 injured after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit China’s southwestern Yunnan province on Sunday, state-run television reported. The quake struck at 4.30 p.m. local time (4.30 a.m. Eastern). The majority of the casualties occurred in the city of Zhaotong, Ludian County. More than 2,500 troops, both active duty soldiers and reservists, have been dispatched to the area to join the disaster relief […]

In Pic :An image from the Pleiades satellite shows a small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan. The island is about 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 meters) high and more than 500 feet (150 meters) in diameter. It sits about 650 feet from the coast. Earth performed the ultimate magic trick last week, making an island appear out of nowhere. […]