Comments - Strong earthquake rocks Nepal, damages Kathmandu - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift2024-03-29T10:28:28Zhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A997400&xn_auth=noThis terrifying map shows how…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-19:3863141:Comment:9994332015-05-19T20:35:08.547ZSongStar101https://poleshift.ning.com/profile/songstar101
<h1>This terrifying map shows how much the earth moved during the Nepal earthquakes</h1>
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<p>On April 25, 2015, the Earth moved violently in Nepal. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people, injured at least 19,000, and displaced hundreds of thousands in cities and villages near…</p>
<h1>This terrifying map shows how much the earth moved during the Nepal earthquakes</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-earth-moved-during-nepal-earthquakes-2015-5" target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-earth-moved-during-nepal-earthquakes-2015-5</a></p>
<p>On April 25, 2015, the Earth moved violently in Nepal. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people, injured at least 19,000, and displaced hundreds of thousands in cities and villages near the Himalayas.</p>
<p>The quake <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85816">destroyed infrastructure</a> and homes, both modern and historic, while triggering landslides on <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85710">Mount Everest,</a> near the village of <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85812">Langtang,</a> and in several other locations around Kathmandu.</p>
<p>The Gorkha earthquake has been called the worst natural disaster in Nepal since a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in 1934.</p>
<p>The Gorkha earthquake changed the shape of the Earth—literally—by raising up and dropping landscapes by several meters. Along a 90 by 30 kilometer (55 by 20 mile) swath of land in Nepal, a fault along the edges of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates <a href="http://aria.jpl.nasa.gov/node/43">slipped as much as 6 meters (20 feet).</a></p>
<p>The release of stress in Earth's crust had devastating effects felt in Nepal, India, China, and Bangladesh. Satellite and ground-based sensors are now revealing the extent of the jolt.</p>
<p>In the days before and after the event, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite acquired observations of the displacement of land in Nepal and surrounding regions.</p>
<p>On each pass, Sentinel-1 measured the distance between itself and the ground, at a slight angle. Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) assembled those new SAR measurements and compared them to previous radar passes over the same area. The results are shown in the land displacement map below.</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869171?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869171?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span><span class="image"><span class="caption">The red area of Nepal on the map was pushed up during the earthquake.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p>The DLR team derived their data by measuring the changes in the amplitude of radar waves reflected off of the landscape before and after the earthquake. In areas shaded in red, Sentinel-1 detected movement toward the satellite (in the line-of-sight direction) of as much as 1.4 meters (4.6 feet). Shades of blue depict movement away from the satellite. Areas in yellow showed little change.</p>
<p>Because the satellite was looking at Nepal from an angle, that land movement technically could have been vertical or horizontal. But measurements using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other sensors have confirmed that nearly all of the ground movement was up or down, meaning the land surface was uplifted or subsided.</p>
<p>Scientists affiliated with the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis project (ARIA)—a collaboration between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology—also contributed to studies of the Gorkha quake.</p>
<p>The team used both GPS measurements and SAR data from the ALOS-2 satellite (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to create their own <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/radar-shows-kathmandu-area-uplifted-5-feet-by-gorkha-nepal-earthquake">maps of ground displacement</a>. The ARIA team also worked on experimental <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13911">"damage proxy maps,</a>" which use SAR and other satellite measurements to broadly assess where structures have been damaged.</p>
<p>Two weeks after the Gorkha event, a major aftershock shook up the Himalayan region along the same fault. A 7.3 magnitude earthquake on May 12, 2015, struck to the east of the Gorkha epicenter and killed at least 68 more people. In a <a href="http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/2015/15-29.htm">scientific paper published in March 2015,</a> researchers had noted that the region was one of the few sections of the Himalayan front that had not seen a major earthquake in several hundred years and seemed to be overdue.</p>
<p>Scientists at ESA, DLR, and JPL are continuing to monitor the Himalayan landscape with an eye on both scientific understanding and utility for emergency responders and civil leaders.</p>
<p>NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens using information produced by <a href="http://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5279/8913_read-16239/">DLR's Remote Sensing Technology Institute</a>, based on data from <a href="https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/sentinel-1">ESA Sentinel-1A</a> satellite and the <a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus">Copernicus Program</a>. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with thanks to Fernando Rodriguez Gonzalez and Thomas Fritz (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) and Eric Fielding (NASA JPL).</p> 5.7 24km N of Ramechhap, Nepa…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-16:3863141:Comment:9991012015-05-16T14:18:28.772Zjorge namourhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/jorgenamour
<p><strong>5.7</strong> 24km N of Ramechhap, <strong>Nepal</strong> 2015-05-16 11:34:10 UTC 10.0 km<br/> <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100029rn#general_summary" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100029rn#general_summary</a></p>
<p><strong>5.7</strong> 24km N of Ramechhap, <strong>Nepal</strong> 2015-05-16 11:34:10 UTC 10.0 km<br/> <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100029rn#general_summary" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100029rn#general_summary</a></p> Update on the missing rescue…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-16:3863141:Comment:9991812015-05-16T01:18:14.683ZHowardhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Howard
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869223?profile=original" target="_self"></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869189?profile=original" target="_self"></a>Update on the missing rescue helicopter in Nepal.</p>
<p><strong>Wreckage of Missing U.S. Marine Helicopter Found in Nepal</strong> (May 15)</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869223?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869223?profile=original" width="616"></img></a> The wreckage of a…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869223?profile=original" target="_self"></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869189?profile=original" target="_self"></a>Update on the missing rescue helicopter in Nepal.</p>
<p><strong>Wreckage of Missing U.S. Marine Helicopter Found in Nepal</strong> (May 15)</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869223?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="616" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869223?profile=original"/></a>The wreckage of a U.S. military helicopter that went missing on Tuesday in Nepal has been found completely destroyed with no survivors, officials have claimed.</p>
<p>The helicopter, which was carrying six U.S. marines and two Nepalese soldiers, was discovered on a hillside near Ghorthali early on Friday morning by a Nepalese army helicopter.</p>
<p>The aircraft was reported missing after a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit the country, just two weeks after more than 8,200 people were killed in an earlier one.</p>
<p>Three bodies have been found at the site so far, although their nationalities have not yet been revealed.</p>
<p>The U.S. Embassy in Nepal made no immediate comment.</p>
<p>The helicopter was on a rescue and relief mission following the second earthquake, as areas in the mountainous region are not reachable road.</p>
<p><strong>Its discovery comes despite despite claims by Nepali media that the aircraft landed safely on Wednesday and that all eight on board were safe.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869189?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="657" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54869189?profile=original"/></a></strong>A tweet from the Finance Minister of Nepal Ram Sharan Mahat posted on Wednesday said: 'Report says missing US chopper with crew safe in Singati power substation,Dolakha. Cannot fly due to land slide nearby.'</p>
<p>But Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool told Dailymail.com the reports were false.</p>
<p>A statement said: 'As of May 13, 8:35pm, Japanese Standard Time, the search for six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese service members aboard the missing UH-1Y Huey continues.</p>
<p>'Two UH-1Y Hueys with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469, and two MV-22B Ospreys from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262, flew nine sorties and approximately 21 flight hours in search of the missing aircraft. Flight operations are still ongoing.'</p>
<p>Some suggested the helicopter was suffering from fuel problems before it came down. </p>
<p>Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said an Indian helicopter working in the quake zone had overheard radio chatter from the U.S. helicopter about 'fuel issues' in the hours before it went missing.</p>
<p>He said: 'There has been no [emergency] beacon, no other signs — no flames, no smoke, no hole in the ground — to indicate that there was a crash.'</p>
<p>'That said of course it's very rugged and difficult terrain.' </p>
<p>The Himalayan nation is still reeling from last month's devastating quake measuring 7.8 that killed more than 8,000 people and injured close to 20,000.</p>
<p>Tuesday's quake and subsequent aftershocks forced many panic-stricken Nepalis to spend yet another night outdoors in makeshift tents and relief camps.</p>
<p>In the district capital Charikot military helicopters carried wounded people to an open-air clinic after buildings collapsed and landslides struck.</p>
<p>Others alternated between evacuating and helping find the missing helicopter, which some say lost radio contact after its crew was heard talking about fuel problems.</p>
<p>Nepal Home Ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dahal previously said he feared the helicopter search was diverting resources from relief and rescue operations.</p>
<p>He said: 'The work of sending relief and rescuing the injured people to hospitals has been delayed due to this.'</p>
<p>Dahal said there were 55 dead in Dolakha.</p>
<p>Aula Bahadur Ale, the assistant administrator of the district, said: 'It looks like a graveyard here.</p>
<p>'Even those houses that have not been flattened have developed cracks. People are too afraid to go into them. We are still feeling the aftershocks that makes people terrified.'</p>
<p>A police official in Kathmandu said 1,928 people had been injured in Tuesday's quake, which also killed 17 people in neighbouring India.</p>
<p>The tremors have left areas of Nepal perilously unstable, leading to fears of more landslides, especially when seasonal monsoon rains begin to fall in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>In Kathmandu, most open spaces are now occupied by residents who set up yellow, blue and white tarpaulin sheets after the initial quake in April.</p>
<p><strong>Source</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3082886/Wreckage-missing-U-S-Marine-helicopter-despite-claims-landed-safely-Nepalese-army-confirm-no-news-eight-people-aboard.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3082886/Wreckage-missing-U-S-Marine-helicopter-despite-claims-landed-safely-Nepalese-army-confirm-no-news-eight-people-aboard.html</a></p> It may be difficult to get ai…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-12:3863141:Comment:9988902015-05-12T21:16:02.222ZSongStar101https://poleshift.ning.com/profile/songstar101
<p>It may be difficult to get aide up there in the days to come! This may be a similar situation as the Germanwings issue over the Alps as the rock is under stress?</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28mr2015.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28mr2015.htm</a></em></p>
<p><em>Rock being pulled apart does not just register distress at the rip point. Rock layers are attached, glued to other rock layers and to seams within the rock layers themselves for long…</em></p>
<p>It may be difficult to get aide up there in the days to come! This may be a similar situation as the Germanwings issue over the Alps as the rock is under stress?</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28mr2015.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28mr2015.htm</a></em></p>
<p><em>Rock being pulled apart does not just register distress at the rip point. Rock layers are attached, glued to other rock layers and to seams within the rock layers themselves for long distances. The Germanwings A320 was rising above the Alps, at the very foothills where in the past the rock had been jammed under the high Alps. The foothills of the Alps present a complicated situation, where rock layers below the Alps are subject to the long reach of the stretching of the Mediterranean, while the weight of the Alps prevents these pulled rock layers from being able to adjust. <strong>It is thus an aggravated stretch zone, and thus dangerous for air travel.</strong></em><strong> </strong></p>
<h1>US Marine Corps helicopter missing in Nepal</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.enca.com/world/us-marine-corps-helicopter-missing-nepal" target="_blank">http://www.enca.com/world/us-marine-corps-helicopter-missing-nepal</a></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON - A US Marine Corps helicopter involved in disaster relief efforts in Nepal was declared missing on Tuesday while working in the vicinity of Charikot village.</p>
<p>Army Major David Eastburn said US military personnel were responding to the disappearance of the UH-1 Huey helicopter and the incident was under investigation.</p>
<p>Six US Marines and two Nepalese soldiers were aboard the helicopter.</p>
<p>The Pentagon said the search flights for the missing helicopter have been suspended because of darkness, but ground search by the Nepalese army continues.</p>
<p>Charikot was one of the villages hardest hit by a <a href="http://www.enca.com/world/second-nepal-quake-terrifies-local-people">7.3 magnitude quake on Tuesday</a>.</p>
<p>The quake was the worst aftershock following the <a href="http://www.enca.com/world/pictures-over-100-killed-nepal-earthquake">7.8 magnitude earthquake</a> that hit Nepal last month.</p> More videos and details in th…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-12:3863141:Comment:9990422015-05-12T20:48:30.234ZSongStar101https://poleshift.ning.com/profile/songstar101
<p>More videos and details in this article show landslides and aftershocks. </p>
<h1 class="story-body__h1">Nepal earthquake: Dozens die in new tremor near Everest</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701385" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701385</a></p>
<p class="story-body__introduction"><a href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82940000/jpg/_82940291_027171401-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82940000/jpg/_82940291_027171401-1.jpg"></img></a> A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal,…</p>
<p>More videos and details in this article show landslides and aftershocks. </p>
<h1 class="story-body__h1">Nepal earthquake: Dozens die in new tremor near Everest</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701385" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701385</a></p>
<p class="story-body__introduction"><a target="_blank" href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82940000/jpg/_82940291_027171401-1.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82940000/jpg/_82940291_027171401-1.jpg"/></a>A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake.</p>
<p>At least 48 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured, officials say. At least 17 have also died in India.</p>
<p>The latest earthquake hit near the town of Namche Bazaar and sent thousands of panicked residents on to the streets of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.</p>
<p><a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ejl#general_summary" class="story-body__link-external">It had a magnitude of 7.3</a>, compared with the 7.8 of the 25 April quake.</p>
<p>The latest quake struck at 12:35 Nepali time (06:50 GMT) and was centred about 76km (47 miles) east of Kathmandu, in a rural area close to the Chinese border.</p>
<p>The quake was felt in northern India, Tibet and Bangladesh. India's home ministry said 16 people had been killed in the state of Bihar, and one more in Uttar Pradesh. Officials in China said one person was confirmed dead in Tibet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-32703129" class="story-body__link">Nepal quake as it happened</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32704090" class="story-body__link">Read eyewitnesses' account of the earthquake</a></p>
<p>Rescue helicopters have been sent to districts east of Kathmandu that are believed to be worst hit. Police in Charikot, 80km north-east of the capital, said 20 people had died there.</p>
<p>Later on Tuesday, the US military said a Marine Corps helicopter involved in disaster relief efforts <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32715538" class="story-body__link">had gone missing while working in the vicinity of Charikot</a>. Eight people were on board.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Nepal's government told the BBC that 31 of the country's 75 districts had been affected by the latest quake.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Sushil Koirala called for "courage and patience" and urged all those who had assisted Nepal since the 25 April quake "to once again extend your helping hand".</p>
<p>The BBC's Yogita Limaye, who was in Nepal's mountains when the latest earthquake struck, said: "The earth shook and it shook for a pretty long time.</p>
<p>"I can completely understand the sense of panic. We have been seeing tremors - it's been two-and-a-half weeks since the first quake. But this one really felt like it went on for a really long time. People have been terrified."</p>
<p>At least four people were killed in the town of Chautara, east of Kathmandu, where a number of buildings are reported to have collapsed.</p>
<p>The International Organisation for Migration <a href="https://twitter.com/IOMasiapacific/status/598031527851593728" class="story-body__link-external">said bodies were being pulled from rubble there</a>.</p>
<p>Krishna Gyawali, the chief district officer for Chautara, said there had been a number of landslides.</p>
<p>Landslides were also reported by Save the Children in Sindhupalchok and Dolakha. A spokeswoman told the BBC its staff had been "dodging huge rocks rolling off the hillside".</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82940000/jpg/_82940292_nepal_quake_12_may_624v3.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82940000/jpg/_82940292_nepal_quake_12_may_624v3.jpg"/></a>Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam said: "Many houses have collapsed in Dolakha... there is a chance that the number of dead from the district will go up."</p>
<p>The BBC's Navin Singh Khadka says the new earthquake has brought down more houses and lodges in the Everest region but that local officials report very few tourists are still in the area following the 25 April quake.</p>
<p>A nurse in Namche Bazaar, Rhita Doma Sherpa, told Reuters: "The school building is cracked and bits of it, I can see, they have collapsed. It was lunchtime. All the kids were outside."</p>
<p>The latest quake struck at a depth of 15km (9.3 miles), according to the US Geological Survey - the same depth as the April quake. Shallow tremors are more likely to cause greater damage at the surface.</p>
<p>Tuesday's earthquake is likely to be one of the largest to hit Nepal, which has suffered hundreds of aftershocks since 25 April.</p>
<p>The 7.3 quake was followed by six aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or higher.</p>
<p>One tremor that hit 30 minutes later, centred on the district of Ramechhap, east of Kathmandu, <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ek5#general_summary" class="story-body__link-external">had a magnitude of 6.3</a>.</p>
<h2 class="story-body__crosshead">Analysis: Jonathan Amos, science correspondent, BBC News</h2>
<p>Scientists are already producing some preliminary analyses of Tuesday's quake.</p>
<p>The epicentre this time is about 80km (50 miles) east-north-east of Kathmandu, halfway to Everest. On 25 April, the big quake began 80km to the north-west of the capital.</p>
<p>In April, we saw the fault boundary rupture eastwards for 150km (93 miles). And the immediate assessment suggests Tuesday's tremor has occurred right at the eastern edge of this failure.</p>
<p>In that context, this second earthquake was almost certainly triggered by the stress changes caused by the first one. Indeed, the US Geological Survey had a forecast for an aftershock in this general area.</p>
<p>Its modelling suggested there was 1-in-200 chance of a M7-7.8 event occurring this week. So, not highly probable, but certainly possible.</p>
<p>Quake experts often talk about "seismic gaps", which refer to segments of faults that are, to some extent, overdue a quake. Tuesday's big tremor may well have filled a hole between what we saw on 25 April and some historic events - such as those in 1934, that occurred further still to the east.</p> Another major quake hits Nepa…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-12:3863141:Comment:9988892015-05-12T20:36:50.503ZSongStar101https://poleshift.ning.com/profile/songstar101
<h1 class="headline" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_790">Another major quake hits Nepal, epicenter near China border</h1>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_1131"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54868769?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54868769?profile=original" width="654"></img></a> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/children-nepal-earthquake-areas-feared-risk-070556723.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/children-nepal-earthquake-areas-feared-risk-070556723.html</a></p>
<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP)…</p>
<h1 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_790" class="headline">Another major quake hits Nepal, epicenter near China border</h1>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_1131"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54868769?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54868769?profile=original" width="654"/></a><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/children-nepal-earthquake-areas-feared-risk-070556723.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/children-nepal-earthquake-areas-feared-risk-070556723.html</a></p>
<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A major earthquake hit Nepal in a remote region near the Chinese border on Tuesday, killing at least four people less than three weeks after the country was ravaged by another deadly quake.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_1129"><strong>The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday's quake hit in the early afternoon with a magnitude of 7.3 in an isolated, conservation area between the capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest.</strong></p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_1133">Several buildings collapsed in the isolated town of Chautara, with at least four people killed, according to Paul Dillon, a spokesman with the International Organization for Migration.</p>
<p>A rescue team from the agency has begun searching through the wreckage of the little town, he said.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_1165">Chautara has become a hub for humanitarian aid in the wake of a major April 25 quake that killed more than 8,150 people and injured more than 17,860 as it flattened mountain villages and destroyed buildings.</p>
<p>Tuesday's quake was deeper, however, coming from a depth of 18.5 kilometers (11.5 miles) versus the April 25th quake that hit 15 kilometers (9.3 miles). More shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage at the surface.</p>
<p>It was followed closely by at least five aftershocks measuring from magnitude 5.6 to magnitude 6.3.</p>
<p>The international airport in Kathmandu, which has become a transport hub for international aid, was closed temporarily, while traffic snarled in the streets of Kathmandu.</p>
<p>"The shaking seemed to go on and on," said Rose Foley, a UNICEF official based in Kathmandu. "It felt like being on a boat in rough seas."</p>
<p>Aid agencies were still struggling Tuesday afternoon to get reports from outside of the capital.</p>
<p>"We're thinking about children across the country, and who are already suffering. This could make them even more vulnerable," Foley said.</p>
<p>In the capital of Kathmandu, the quake sent people rushing outside of their homes. Police gave no immediate estimates of damage.</p>
<p>Indian Embassy spokesman Abhay Kumar said some buildings in Kathmandu collapsed, but he gave no further details about how many or where they were. Experts say the April 25 quake caused extensive structural damage even in buildings that did not topple, and that many could be in danger of future collapse.</p>
<p>Rasmus Baastrup, a Dane from Doctors Without Borders, said in a live interview with Denmark's TV2 channel "I walked out quickly. I couldn't run because the earth was shaking so much that it was impossible to run." Baastrup, speaking from Kathmandu, said he had been told that all staff with Doctors Without Borders were alive but was not more specific.</p>
<p>Norway's Red Cross, which was helping people from the April 25 earthquake at a 60-bed hospital in Chautara in central Nepal, said on Twitter in Norwegian that there were "many injured, several killed" and added that their hospital tents already has gotten patients.</p>
<p>"People are terribly scared. Everyone ran out in the streets because they are afraid of being inside the houses," Norwegian Red Cross Secretary-General Asne Havnelid told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.</p>
<p>At the Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu, patients and doctors rushed to the parking lot.</p>
<p>"I thought I was going to die this time," said Sulav Singh, who rushed with his daughter into the street in the suburban neighborhood of Thapathali. "Things were just getting back to normal, and we get this one."</p>
<p>Nepalese have been terrified by dozens of aftershocks that hit the country in the days following the April 25 quake. Meanwhile, the impoverished country has appealed for billions of dollars in aid from foreign nations, as well as medical experts to treat the wounded and helicopters to ferry food and temporary shelters to hundreds of thousands left homeless amid unseasonal rains and unreachable with landslides blocking many mountain roads.</p>
<p>"This was a jolt just like the big one last month, though it was not that long," said Kathmandu resident Avinav Shrestha. "I was very scared, though. Anything can happen."</p>
<p>Strong shaking was also felt across northern India. In the Indian capital of New Delhi, people scrambled outdoors while buildings swayed.</p>
<p>Across the Nepalese border in Tibet's Jilong and Zhangmu regions, the Earth shook strongly. Tremors were also felt slightly in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.</p>
<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431423368923_1185">"Rocks fell from the mountains," Jilong county government vice chief Wang Wenxiang was quoted as saying by China News Service. "There might be some houses collapsed or damaged. We are now checking on the condition of the people."</p> http://thewatchers.adorraeli.…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-05-06:3863141:Comment:9984822015-05-06T16:05:00.790ZKMhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/KarenMartel
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<h1>Landslide in Langtang Valley, Nepal</h1>
<div class="article-holder"><div class="article-content"><div class="article-text"><p><strong>The small village of Langtang, which was located along a popular trekking…</strong></p>
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<h1>Landslide in Langtang Valley, Nepal</h1>
<div class="article-holder"><div class="article-content"><div class="article-text"><p><strong>The small village of Langtang, which was located along a popular trekking route near the base of Mount Langtang, was completely buried by ice and rocks shaken loose by <a href="http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/04/25/massive-m8-1-earthquake-hits-nepal/">devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015</a>. At least 200 people died in this disaster. </strong></p>
<p>The village was located below a very steep ridge and above the ridge there is a glacier towards the north-west and large snow field right above the village, MountainHydrology <a href="http://mountainhydrology.org/nepal-quake/langtang-village/">writes</a>. </p>
<p>"There has been a lot of snow fall this year and at the moment of the earthquake there were considerable amounts of snow at higher altitudes. <span>From a preliminary investigation we think it is most likely that either a snow avalanche from directly north of Langtang village or a debris/ice avalanche from the north-west has caused this disaster."</span></p>
<p>These are marked by red arrows in the map:</p>
<p>While <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2015/04/29/elusive-earthquake-imagery/">cloudy conditions</a> have hampered satellite observations of Nepal since the earthquake, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a clear view on April 30, 2015.</p>
<p>A mixture of snow, ice, and debris - which originated in snowfields on the slopes above Langtang - slid toward the Langtang River and buried the village.</p>
<p>Walter Immerzeel and Philip Kraaijenbrink, members of a <a href="http://mountainhydrology.org/research-team/">group of volunteer scientists</a> (Mountain Hydrology) with expertise in remote sensing, were the first to identify and analyze the landslide using Landsat 8.</p>
<p>“The Langtang River was completely covered by the deposit that buried Langtang Village, but there is no evidence yet of a lake forming behind the blockage,” the scientists <a href="http://mountainhydrology.org/nepal-quake/landsat-8-reveals-extent-of-earthquake-disaster-in-langtang-valley/">noted</a>.</p>
<p>This may indicate that the water has found its way through the debris, snow, and ice which is significant because rivers damned with landslide debris can back up and lead to destructive downstream floods if the natural dam fails.</p>
<p>A video uploaded by YouTube user Shaky on May 4, 2015 shows the start of the avalanche. Its description says:</p>
<p>"We were somewhere between Godatabela and Langtang. After the quake large boulders destroyed the forest on the opposite side of the river. Then rocks started rolling on our side and finally the huge avalanche and landslide that destroyed Langtang village created a cloud of snow and mud that came over us and covered everything."</p>
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<p>City of Kathmandu may have shifted 10 feet southward by earthquake <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/city-of-kathmandu-may-have-shifted-10-feet-southward-by-earthquake/article1-1341607.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/city-of-kathmandu-may-have-shifted-10-feet-southward-by-earthquake/article1-1341607.aspx</a></p>
<p>City of Kathmandu may have shifted 10 feet southward by earthquake <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/city-of-kathmandu-may-have-shifted-10-feet-southward-by-earthquake/article1-1341607.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/city-of-kathmandu-may-have-shifted-10-feet-southward-by-earthquake/article1-1341607.aspx</a></p>