It destroyed the rural region of Gorkha in Nepal, in which epicenter was in shock. Accurate statement – also in people – there can not be estimated because of damaged infrastructure. The roads are impassable, and many houses in these villages has been completely destroyed or were buried by heaps of sliding to the ground.
The last weekend at least twice in the region of Mount Everest last avalanche, which killed at least 22 people. To hospitals in Kathmandu transported the first group of injured climbers. Still no contact with many people who were in the area of Everest. President of the Nepal mountaineering Association estimates that the highest mountain in the world, in the area of avalanche danger, there were 800 people, mostly foreigners.
As a result of the earthquake affected nearly a million children. UNICEF emphasizes that the biggest problem today is to provide those in need access to clean water and detergents.
Nepal earthquake occurred on Saturday morning our time. Strength was 7.8 on the Richter scale. After it was dozens of aftershocks, including yesterday’s strength of 6.7 on the Richter scale.
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