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Hundreds Dead After Devastating Nepal Earthquake Topples Structures, Starts Avalanches
A little over four years after the devastating Japanese earthquake led to a tsunami that triggered the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, overnight Asia was once again the epicenter of a massive, 7.9 magnitude earthquake, this time not on the Pacific Rim but deep in the Himalayan mountain range, striking the small country of Nepal and sending tremors deep in Northern India, resulting in at least 449 deaths, countless injured, toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu and triggering avalanches on Mount Everest.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, initially measured at 7.7 but upgraded to 7.9 magnitude, struck 80 km (50 miles) east of Pokhara. It was only 2 km deep.
According to Reuters, this was the worst quake to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation in 81 years. The tremor was so strong it caused damage in neighboring Indian states and Bangladesh. The quake was shallow, intensifying the amount of energy released over a relatively small area.
Reuters further reports that the death toll had reached 449 in Nepal according to an initial police estimate, most from the Kathmandu Valley. There was little information coming from the outlying areas of the mountainous country and helicopters were circling overheard to get a better sense of the damage.
"Hundreds of people are feared dead and there are reports of widespread damage to property. The devastation is not confined to some areas of Nepal. Almost the entire country has been hit," said Krishna Prasad Dhakal, deputy chief of mission at Nepal’s Embassy in New Delhi.
The following photos from the scene of the incident confirm the extent of the devastation.
Streets in #Nepal ’s capital Kathmandu severely damaged by strong M8.1 #earthquake : CENC pic.twitter.com/OMnDBFKqzA
— CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) April 25, 2015
Second quake at M7.0 jolts ground 30km beneath #Nepal at 6:45 UTC, 34 minutes after the first: CENC pic.twitter.com/7rgIYZ7sVr
— CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) April 25, 2015
Hundreds feared trapped in Kathmandu’s crumbled #Dharara Tower: local media pic.twitter.com/NeZKYip3t1
— CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) April 25, 2015
NOW--- LOCALS TRAPPED inside this rubble- people trying hard to rescue pic.twitter.com/tzveUSW8OD
— Kashish Das Shrestha (@kashishds) April 25, 2015
Latest pics sent to ANI from Kathmandu of #earthquake aftermath pic.twitter.com/hhdXHMTQAu
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 25, 2015
#Earthquake #Nepal - We have reports from #Kathmandu about collapsed buildings and fatalities- http://t.co/6zdFQouDqz pic.twitter.com/FJ83VD5D08
— Earthquake Report (@ShakingEarth) April 25, 2015
Kathmandu temples destroyed by earthquake. pic.twitter.com/CwvAZVsiER
— Siobhan Heanue (@siobhanheanue) April 25, 2015
Buildings collapse, at least two killed as 7.9 quake hits Nepal, India http://t.co/kTVGGF5y6l via @Reuters
— Anantha (@AnanthalakshmiA) April 25, 2015
"Still shaking as I'm typing this.” https://t.co/WH4fFvzwIL pic.twitter.com/OfddM9YX7S
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 25, 2015
7 story building collapsed in Sat-tale Kapan. #kathmandu #Nepal pic.twitter.com/e9uoLbYB6Y
— Aakar Anil (@aakarpost) April 25, 2015
Here is the first video from the capital Kathmandu:
As the oingoing reports from the scene of the quake trickle in, it is almost certain that the final death toll will be far greater, although it will hopefully not surpass the devastating 1934 M8.3 quake that struck Nepal and killed over 8,500.
"Hundreds of people are feared dead and there are reports of widespread damage to property. The devastation is not confined to some areas of Nepal. Almost the entire country has been hit," said Krishna Prasad Dhakal, deputy chief of mission at Nepal’s Embassy in New Delhi.
"We are totally cut off from most parts of our country," said Ram Narayan Pandey of the Nepal Disaster Management Authority, who was coordinating relief efforts from Kathmandu.
The death toll in northern India rose to at least 12, with six killed in house collapses in Uttar Pradesh and six more dying in Bihar further east, according to government officials.
Striking in immediate proximity to Mount Everest, the earthquake led to at least one major avalanche in its aftermath. It was unknown as of this moment if any climbers were caught in its wake.
The quake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, according to climbers there, raising fears for those on the world's highest peak a year after a massive snowslide caused the deadliest incident on the world's highest mountain.
Romanian climber Alex Gavan said on Twitter that there had been a "huge avalanche" and "many, many" people were up on the mountain. "Running for life from my tent," Gavan said. "Everest base camp huge earthquake then huge avalanche."
Another climber, Daniel Mazur, said Everest base camp had been "severely damaged" and his team was trapped. Please pray for everyone," he said on his Twitter page.
An avalanche in April 2014 just above the base camp on Mount Everest killed 16 Nepali guides. April is one of the most popular times to climb Everest before rain and clouds cloak the mountain at the end of next month.
Avalanche on Everest after earthquake. 50-60 people trapped at Dharahara.
— Damcho Dorji (@DamchoDorji) April 25, 2015
Everest base camp huge earthquaqe then huge avalanche from pumori.Running for life from my tent. Unhurt. Many many people up the mountain.
— Alex Gavan (@AlexGAVAN) April 25, 2015
The quake was so powerful, tremors were felt as far away as New Delhi and other northern cities in India, with reports that they had lasted up to a minute. "Massive tremors have been felt here in Delhi and several other parts of India," said a newsreader on NDTV in Delhi.
"You can see pictures of our Delhi studios, where the windows rattled and everything shook for a very long time, for a minute perhaps or longer," she said as footage showed studio ceiling camera lights shaking.
"We are in the process of finding more information and are working to reach out to those affected, both at home and in Nepal," tweeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He convened a high-level meeting with ministers and top officials to assess the situation. There were no preliminary reports of damage anywhere in India, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Press Trust of India.
The massive quake concludes a period of relative seismic stability in the Asian region over the past 4 years. One hopes that this isn't a harbinger of many more earthquakes to come, and certainly none targeting already suffering Japan, because the last things its foundering economy, already on the Keynesian precipice, needs is an act of nature to seal its fate.
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Fracking in US? /sic
The End is here!
Hundreds?
It always take a few days to get a real picture of the toll.
My guess is an exponent.
Not wishing.. just guestimating.
Whatever the number of dead brown Asians, let's all worry about the rich white assholes that are there to "climb" that dumb fucking mountain. It will be a shame to lose even one privileged, Patagonia wearing doucheknuckle to the awesome destruction of an earthquake.
Cleaned up all the debris in the alps in just 2 weeks, this will be a breeze.
Coming to a USSA town near you, after a nuclear attack.
Yeah it would be a shame to lose even one privileged, Patagonia wearing doucheknuckle who often says "thought leader" as well.
I truly feel sorry for the Nepalese loss of life and suffering. At least in this instance, it was likely a natural earthquake.
Next thing, the blame will fall upon Belinda Genner's shoulders as she is written off as a total loonie tune for being a trans gender Republican who believes in the Constitution. Whole lotta smearin' gonna be brought down on the poor lady. Yeah, we'll see principles vacated for political expediency.
So why not throw in the disaster in Nepal as man made by evil people (take your pick)?
Zeitgeist
May God hold those lost, close in the palms of his hands
Naw, beanie wearing hasbara drones launched from a ZWO forward operating base on Diego Garcia
Hasbro Drones ! A lot of toy companies land MIC contracts !
Why won't this happen to LA?
What!?
GE didn't have any antiquated nuclear reactors built along the fault lines?
climate change will be blamed in three....two....one....
who downvoted this? i was serious.
it didn't take long....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Bihar-escapes-major-devast...
as East, so West,
fuk-u and fracking-induced;
as West so East,
fracking poisoned water and Himalayan drinking water for 1.4 billions being hit;
Gaia is unleasing her wrath, folks.
Re-set will bring on moar --- 9, 10, +.
You should go into the sympathy card business.....
Would appear thousands have perished now.
I imagine you don't just fly in there either.
"The closed we get the farther away we become."
Felt the tremors twice .
No injuries though in neighboring nation .
The Himalaya chain of mountains is still growing, by about 4mm a year (the Indian Plate is moving north at about 67mm per year), so seismic events are not unexpected, though not usually on this scale.
https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/62/5/the-great-himalayan-earthquakes/
They do get quite a few, though....and ones like this every 75 years or so....pretty normal, hence it is a risky area.
Kokopo New Guniea had a 7.5 end of March....they get many more big ones than the Himalaya, and the relative plate movement is nearly 2x what it is in the Himalaya (plates converging at over 100mm/year). Doesn't make the news, but living there must be a real rock-and-roll experience.
When are you gonna show a little compassion .... for your fellow 'Murikans ? LL (Latina Lover) .... I'd bet you always side with Red China .... when she bullies her neighbors ! Verdad, Perra de Oro (Gold Bitch) ?
I show compassion by standing fore square against aggressive USSA wars. How many young americans needlessly die so that the MIC can make billions?
I haven't heard an insane diatribe like yours since I was little, in the sixties. Are you some kind of 'cold warrior' living in storage somewhere?
well said LL
I find it funny it is 'very remote region' of the Himilayas yet there are more pics, tweets and coverage of it than Hillary Clintons election campaign..
Tylers can we get another article about Hitlery she is just so perfectly evil we can all feel good inside having our daily flame war about her..
Ok, here goes...some reports are saying the Hillary! van was seen driving past the epicenter about an hour beforehand.
She's now graduated to international disaster status ;-)
Little known fact...I was actually climbing in the area when the quake hit. I was able to rescue dozens by clearing debris, reverse distilling some water for them and even delivered a baby....i emailed hillary all the photos and testimonials of my heroism.
best,
Brian Williams
lol
Dear Brian,
Thanks for the story, but we already knew you were a doucheknuckle.
What I wanna know is why isn't the MSM reporting on the ever expanding gap between Hillarys! two front teeth.
In the 4th photo you can see a van in the distance with a bumper sticker, "Team Hillary."
Yep, I see it now, right between the Coexist one & the Ban Chick-fil-A one. So now we have confirmation ;-)
Coincidental backstory on this...
Remember when Hillary falsely claimed to have been named after Sir Edmund Hillary (the first man to climb Everest) back in 1995?:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp
Yep, she's been a liar for as long as she's been able to talk...
Lol. And I am a descendant of King Charlemagne.
(Seriously, I am! Got a geneology file on it.)
Priceless, dude, priceless. Almost wet myself laughing.
You forgot to mention she flew there on her broomstick. She will be legend when the stories of her silhouette crossing the moon's radiance. :)
A 7.9 is what you get every time Hitlery bangs Dr K.
omg..
that is a mind graphic that I will not be abe to smoke or drink away.
Most in the area are grateful for the work that pays them the money they need to live. Not much farming going on in the area dipshit.
Somehow they lived for thousands of years without the "help" of white "explorers".
Never fear, King Obama has appointed an Earthquake Czar along with putting the EPA under this new czar and is at this very moment ordering troops to the region.
All's well!
This calls for a hashtag, at least.
Yeah, a Super Grand Master Czar!
It's not over until we have an Alien Czar.
You are obsessed with "white people" .... like Obama .... lilly white Kansas prairie flower slut mom .... and Mulatto Frank Marshall Davis as father .... yeah, we own him ! LOL
Asians are yellow, not brown. Get it right, Ranty McFuckstick.
Damn, and one of my nuclear bombs is missing too, could be say, 6 feet under?
smells like spitak in 1986.
Is the planet more active the last couple of weeks or what?
Volcanos, earthquakes, extreme weather...
Something certainly seems to be up (or shaking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lbl0lefhpM
check out the HUGE filaments cresting the limb and turning to face us.
This cat seems in line with Piers Corbyn over at WeatherAction, aligning solar activity with not only weatherpatterns, but seismic movement. Interesting. I'd never seen this guy's videos before.
Would anyone like to speculate on God's love?
POEM ON THE LISBON DISASTER
Oh, miserable mortals! Oh wretched earth!
Oh, dreadful assembly of all mankind!
Eternal sermon of useless sufferings!
Deluded philosophers who cry, "All is well,"
Hasten, contemplate these frightful ruins,
This wreck, these shreds, these wretched ashes of the dead;
These women and children heaped on one another,
These scattered members under broken marble;
One-hundred thousand unfortunates devoured by the earth,5
Who, bleeding, lacerated, and still alive,
Buried under their roofs without aid in their anguish,
End their sad days!
In answer to the half-formed cries of their dying voices,
At the frightful sight of their smoking ashes,
Will you say: "This is the result of eternal laws
Directing the acts of a free and good God!"
Will you say, in seeing this mass of victims:
"God is revenged, their death is the price for their crimes?"
What crime, what error did these children,
Crushed and bloody on their mothers' breasts, commit?
Did Lisbon, which is no more, have more vices
Than London and Paris immersed in their pleasures?
Lisbon is destroyed, and they dance in Paris!
Voltaire
Was Lisbon attacked by ISIS ? WTF
Kkkkkkkkkkkkk
Cat
Man
Do!
Really where I'm going to!
If I ever get of...bed
Going to
Cat Man Do!
.
Sorry, not Voltaire either...
Because eve ate the from the tree of knowlege? Because she was seduced by the talking snake, hubba hubba wink wink? Come on.
Because eve ate the from the tree of knowlege? Because she was seduced by the talking snake, hubba hubba wink wink? Come on.
any chance you would change your programming on god? for starters, how about challenging god *nicely* to prove his existance to you. secondly, how about (allowing for the view) viewing that god is limited because we are flawed, or, independent and under multiple influences.
So, how do you let god prove his presence? a few ways, I suppose, but here is one. Pencil and paper, write a number between 11 and 59 (just to make it easy on him(her?)). and then pick another number 1-9. Then pick another number from 1 to 9. Writing it down is just so YOU dont forget. The 2 additional single numbers are just so he can have fun doing tricks. Now remember, say to him, look how about these be OUR numbers, and you, being outside of time, can arrange things, and guide my eyes in key moments, and I promise to not be fucking oblivious to what I see around me, to not waste your efforts to say "HI".
Best to you. All I can say, is CLEARLY, god is happy to have fun playing with his powers (unless you really are a shit and should at least try to straighten up during this -prove yourself- challenge.)
In addition, men now have powers over earthquakes and weather, so it is REALLY unfair to attribute shit to him during this era. Better challenge would be this.....WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR POWERS? Are you a plus to those around you? What is stopping you? DNA? I dont think so.
wait, slow down, i picked, 20, then 1, then 5...
what say ?
Gaia not holding it any more?
Hot times at Yellowstone: huge magma chamber found deeply buried[1] "I think I'm goin' to Katmandu, That's really really where I'm going to
If I ever get out of here, That's what I'm gonna do."
Bob Seger's sentiments aside, I've seen enough dumps and squalid places all over the planet, to cure me of whatever "mystical" value they purport to have. A hike to any mountaintop that provides a nice view, will do. Thank you very much.
Nice and cool as it might be, you don't need to zip around the ISS or the Enterprise either, to take in the beauty and awe of Nature -- both from the microscopically small, to the cosmically large. I suggest that you enjoy the View while you can, before you shuffle off this 'mortal coil', and seek to "make a difference", i.e. to either leave it alone or try to make it a better place than you found it.
And by "better place", I don't mean that you impose your worldview or brand of theology on others, but merely act as a decent human being and seek to "Add value" to the lives you touch.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SAcg4z5M28
God has a plan for you:
First, he is going to f*ck you up,
Then he is going to kill you
imagine if you will, there you are, got essential powers, however that happened, and then got a planet of folks with constraints and freedoms, which allows for probably the most interesting possibilities, and you cant get a break from those who claim to know you, and they go around saying whatever, over and over, limiting their neighbors view of the actual realities. Its the assumption of distance that is really a key hurdle. Feel your breath.
The End is High!
Stoners Repent!
remmember from a week or two back, about that whales..
Not alot of whales in Nepal, I wager half a pfennig.
Psalms 46:2 ... "Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;"
Oh yes we will!
Nah, if this happened in the US, the markets would be up a few hundred points. That's not fear, more like insane reaction to Fed policy. Every bit of negative news is contorted into the Fed having to print. Imagine 9/11 in today's environment.
All the collapsed buildings and burned bodies are chock-full of yummy crunchy Krugman Bullishness!!! Break some more windows along the way, first-responders!!!
And they collapsed into their own footprint at near free-fall speed, even with the ground shaking underneath them side to side, clearly another false flag!
Port au Prince 2.0
I am doing a major real estate development in Bangalore. Every building inspector and concrete contractor (called "civil contractors" here) in Kathmandu responsible for deaths should be dragged through the streets Fallujah-style. But they won't be.
Not gonna make any money on the project if you don't shave those edges.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLQ3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=sc...
Is that where Simon Black is holing up these days?
"Kkkkkk, Katmandu"
I think it's really where I'm going to
If I ever get out of here
I'm goin to Katmandu
Prolly more truth to it than you know.
Nahhh... Goin to Montana soon.
Gonna be a mental floss tycoon.
And grow Pet Rocks.
+ for Frank Zappa
240p, but a great jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ialhaxhr7iA
Also, don't eat the yellow snow!
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Just sayin.....
Crazy, right? I mean this whole earthquake and war thing... It's really never happened at the same time. Call me crazy butt, but this has got to be a sign. Jesus is coming... Better look busy.
http://www.warwingsart.com/12thAirForce/Vesuvius.html
On Good Morning America right now, the lead story, very in depth and long, both at the open and as the top headline, is Bruce Jenner-I Am A Woman.
Which made Gaia so angry she kicked Nepal in the shin. Its like a planetary-geologic microagrression or sumpin ;-)
It is a WH-endorsed, programmed days ago, "intoxicate the sheeple" report and would not have been bumped even for a 9.0 quake.
Members of the MSM, The Praetorian Press, will be doing time on hell's meat rack for the way they've f---ed us over. Wow, you give them a f---ing Constitutional Ammendment, and this is what they do with it.
I wonder how much money the Clinton Foundation will scam from these poor people like they did in Haiti..
"GOLD MINE: HILLARY CLINTON’S BROTHER GRANTED SUPER-RARE MINING PERMIT FROM HAITI AFTER STATE DEPT. SENT COUNTRY BILLIONS"
VCS’s coveted gold mining exploitation permit was apparently such a sweetheart deal that it outraged the Haitian senate, since royalties to be paid to the Haitian government were only 2.5%, a sum mining experts say is at least half the standard rate. Moreover, the mining project in Morne Bossa came with a generous ability to renew the project for up to 25 years. Nevertheless, the fledgling company proudly touted its luck in landing the deal.
“This is one of two permits issued today, the first permit of their kind issued in over five decades,” reads the only press release under VCS’s “news” tab on its scant website.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/05/gold-mine-hillary-cli...
"Clinton Foundation officials said Bill Clinton had been unaware of Rodham’s involvement in the mine project. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton said she does not know the chief executive of the mine."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/20/bill-clinton-unaware-...
Bill and Hill: the hardest working pair in Politics!
Hope someone warned all of the Nepalese of the British pedophile child traffickers that cater to politicians and royalty. They will arrive shortly in private jets to help all those little orphans.
But, how will this help israel?
/sarc
Lots of them vakay there, so, I don't know.
OMG. Vacations of the chosen interrupted by something! We must send billions, trillions to them immediately. All else must stop until done so.
/sarc
Go long hashish!
http://earthquaketrack.com/recent
Unfortunably, it seems it will top 100k.
It would have been a bad time .... for Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton .... to be on top of Everest .... amazing, how those third worlders have respected the name Everest ?
Ya knooowah...Hillary! was named after that famous explorer.
So far the area has had a total of 16 earthquakes, all above magnitude 4.8.
It's interesting to notice I woke up tensed and with my ears ringing about 5-10 minutes before the first and strongest EQ struck this morning.
You may have heard a Death Ray ricocheting off the moon. Some say it’s hollow.
The moon, yeah, the Atlanteans built it as a death star funded by the minting of a trillion dollar coin on the advice of their high priest Paulus Krugmanus
Did your dog sleep through it ?
Watch Red China rush in with lots of aid .... this is an opportunity to plant the Red flag !
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/ukrainian-neo-nazis-from-azov-batal...
Video was taken down. I could only watch the first minute before clicking off. This makes the head choppers look humane.
Thank You USSA, for creating and exporting the KKK/ISIS into the Ukraine.
Have the westerners there on holiday demanded that their governments evacuate them yet?
How did those damn whales know that an earthquake was coming to Nepal??????????????????
Because they were "special" whales.
You see, not like your ordinary run-of-the-mill whales that didn't beach themselves but really special whales ;-)
My condolences to the families. What a horrible event. On a lighter note, you better stop fracking operations. Time to tell the climate clown's what's going on.
M7.9 DISASTER IN NEPAL | S0 News April 25, 2015http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lbl0lefhpM
There's been a few big ones the last week or so
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
And the Cascadia subduction zone has been over quiet for a while other than one 6.2 mag last night.
Too many E words to comprehend.
who knew fracking in Oklahoma causes earthquakes in Nepal?
Give you 100 up votes.
Ever wonder how Everest got up there?
When I was a young kid in Japan in '69 we had an earthquake. That is some scary shit! The ground isn't supposed to move. Broke all the windows and threw everything of the walls. My older brother screaming naked running from the bathroom was hilarious though. No structural damage to the house but, the road had a large gap in it. Maybe the Chinese want Nepal after taking over Tibet and used the tech expertise given by Pres. Clinton to them for campaign donations like he did the missile guidance tech for ballistic missiles. Seems like every news agency forgot about the Chinese connection to the Clinton clan.
Damn Putin!
Gotta wonder....Twin Towers....(America's Tower to their god) . . . and the toppling of this Indian god tower. hmmmm.....something's afoot.
The Chinese are engaging in geological warfare / oppression. Manipulating weather patterns is pretty JV compared to making earthquakes.
Is this related to the recent episode of whales beaching themselves in Japan? ZH had an article where there was a questions of a link between the beaching and an upcoming quake.
That is a true phenomenon.
They could have been forecasting quakes around the Pacific Rim.
The whales beached themselves on the 11th and Japan has had atleast 7 quakes since, at least one quake qas over 6.0. So technically they were right. Then again Japan has earthquakes all the time.
http://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/recent
of course in the world of mass-media the biggest news of the day is bruce jenner.
Don't be politically incorrect. He will be addressed as Bruce Transjenner.
/lol
lmao over this one, Bruth says...
“I’m not gay”
“For all intents and purposes, I am a woman”
“I’m not attracted to men”
...he's either lying about one of the above or very VERY confused ;-)
Ah the elite playing their HAARP for their Eco -Terroism Expo. Must be going to hit w/ Climate Change propaganda / agitprop campaign push soon. Tuning it in to right frequencies.
"Immanentize the Eschaton".
Look up. Scalar multiplication.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ScalarMultiplication.html
They are trying to play mother nature.
;-/
A 7.9 on land near a populated area is really shocking - the energy yield is equivalent to 10-15 megatons of TNT. At first I thought it might be the biggest one of its kind recently, but research shows that there was another within my lifetime: 2008 Sichuan, China, 7.9 magnitude. +87k fatalities. I am not looking forward to more news from Nepal, since they can only be of a dire nature.
Britain and Nepal have close ties through the Gurkha regiments in the British army - even though the government had treated them like shit until a public campaign to address this deplorable state of affairs in 2006 - so I expect we'll be sending token help to Nepal if we can tear ourselves from training terrorists in the ME and nazis in Ukraine.
Deep condolences to the people of Nepal and prayers of hope for their future go with this post.
First of all, courage to rescue workers and RIP to the dead.
Second, engage with Japanese, they know a thing or two about quakes and construction requirements ( in case that was a factor ).
Third, is the UN mapping disaster prone zones with the view of relocating populations if other measures are insufficient ?
Its been reported Brian Williams survived the earthquake and subsequent avalanches descending Mt Everest after climbing it for the 5th time
Such a heroic man
yet another not-so-subtle reminder from mother nature of who is really in charge.
Manipulated Diaspora ala Agenda 21 via HAARP Scalar Mutlplication.
Immanentize the Eschaton.
Well, there is a giant tectonic plate under India that extends to Australia. And this plate is moving northward very quickly, diving under the Tibetan Plateau. This is creating the Himalaya Mountains, and also these earthquakes.
This latest quake shook Mt Everest, and was felt strongly in Delhi, India. RT is giving the best reporting I have found. They say that at least 1130 have perished. I'm surprised the numbers are not higher. It's very sad. I get the impression that India has the most influence and interest in Nepal, which I'm guessing is sort of on the "India side," while Tibet is on the "China side" of the Himalayas. India is sending aid of some sort, it appears.
The Times of India coverage is quite good:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earthquake-in-north-India/liveblog/47...
I'm surprised there aren't more and even stonger quakes there. The Himalays are being thown up by Indian Subcontinent crashing northward into Asia. Each quake is earth being heaved upwards. I would have thought the place would have these quakes every few months, but I guess the earth moves very slow on our human time scale.
There is an entertaining book, titled "City of Glass", about LA and all of its natural disasters (including earthquakes). One of the best quotes in the book is simply "you don't get topography for nothing".
It really sums it up. We are attracted to dramatic scenery, but nature doesn't leave things dramatic & vertical for very long....erosion takes its toll. Beautiful scenery is often due to extreme natural forces at work, and the Himalaya are one of the foremost examples.
They might want to check and see if there' a connection to this earthquake and the CERN Accelerator. My understanding is it was being powered up right around the time of this earthquake.
Too bad it wasn't the Heeb part of NYC!!!!
Is that you HH?
If not you're still a POS!!
Fucking nutbag
Oh dear, out come the messiahs and [fill in doctrinaire handbook] thumpers.
Fact is Nepal is a failed state, always was. Fourth world. It's GDP is based on outside aid. There are about 12 city blocks of walkable pavement in Kathmandu, centered at the royal palace; the rest of the city is potholes and carved-out pathways between buildings. It's a remarkable place, mind-blowing and yet failed by western standards. I can tell you their .gov is completely unable to deal with this; Nepal will need international help and I hope the US has the decency to move on it. China will.
When has the US ever failed in that regard? Not only the gubment but the people give more than any other in the world. If I were Nepal I would check and see if China has "other" interests such as those in Tibet.
Enough about the loss of life, what about the height of Everest? Did it increase?
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It's funny with the amount of conspiracy theories here at ZH, I'm suprised more aren't trying to blame this on below ground nuclear testing compared to common sense answers and outlook to the situation.
If this were another "caught on tape cop doing something shocking so this must be standard practice" post the theories would be wild and wacky.
You're losing your touch ZH crowd!!!
The shape- "Have the westerners there on holiday demanded that their governments evacuate them yet?"
No because they know THIS government won't lift a finger to help any American abroad, especially if you are Christian/ white/ republican/ military/ veteran/ and are anywhere near any Muslim country that you had no business being in because you are an American unlike our "Christian" presdent.
Loss of life always sad. However, one sure thing in life: death. That's why we should understand the direction of it.
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