Open AccessRemembering Nepal Earthquake of 2015 and Updating Post-earthquake Reconstruction
Author(s) -
Ganesh Dangal,
Ojash Dangal,
Dharana Gelal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
europasian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2717-4654
pISSN - 2717-4646
DOI - 10.46405/ejms.v3i2.352
Subject(s) - plateau (mathematics) , seismology , geology , geography , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Nepal earthquake of 2015, a massive earthquake that struck near the city of Kathmandu (Gorkha) in central Nepal on April 25, 2015. Nearly 9,000 people were killed, many thousands more were injured, and more than 600,000 structures in Kathmandu and other nearby 31 districts were either damaged or destroyed. The earthquake was felt throughout central and eastern Nepal, much of the Ganges River plain in northern India, and northwestern Bangladesh, as well as in the southern parts of the Plateau of Tibet and western Bhutan.