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Dozens Killed, Thousands Injured As Nepal Hit With Second Powerful Earthquake

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Just weeks after a 7.8 magnitude tremor rocked Nepal leaving thousands dead, another strong earthquake hit the country on Tuesday. Today’s 7.4 magnitude quake emanated from a remote area near the border with China. So far, there are at least 29 known casualties and thousands of serious injuries. 

More, via CNN:

The shock waves rippled out from a remote area of eastern Nepal, near the border with China, leveling buildings already damaged by the devastating quake that killed thousands of people two and a half weeks ago.

 

The magnitude 7.3 earthquake Tuesday struck at a depth of about 15 kilometers (9 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said, slightly revising its earlier estimates. A series of significant aftershocks, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.3, followed the initial larger quake.

 

The earthquake shook a country still picking up the pieces from the magnitude 7.8 quake that hit central Nepal on April 25, killing more than 8,000 people.

 

The epicenter of the new earthquake was about 75 kilometers east of Kathmandu, the Nepali capital where many buildings were destroyed in the earlier quake.

 

[Some of the] deaths were reported in the town of Chautara, about 35 kilometers east of Kathmandu, said Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration.

 

The bustling capital was once again plunged into panic as residents rushed into the streets.

 

"People are very scared and they don't know what is going on," said CNN iReporter Prashup Rajbhandari in Kathmandu. He said he thought the quake had cracked his house.

 


More, from BBC:

A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 died in a devastating quake.

 

At least 29 people have been killed and 1,006 injured, according to the Nepali government.

 

The latest earthquake hit near the town of Namche Bazaar, near Mount Everest.

 

The US Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 7.3. An earthquake on 25 April, centred in western Nepal, had a magnitude of 7.8.

 

The latest tremor was also felt in northern India and Bangladesh, and was centred east of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, in a rural area close to the Chinese border.

 

In Kathmandu, which was badly damaged last month, people rushed out of buildings as the quake struck at 12:35 local time (06:50 GMT).

 

Rescue helicopters have been sent to districts north-east of the capital, that are believed to be worst hit.

 

A spokesman for Nepal's government told the BBC that 31 of the country's 75 districts had been affected.


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And the harsh reality, via The Economist:

More quakes are sure to follow, in the years ahead if not in coming weeks. As the Indian tectonic plate pushes northwards, it is inevitable that more big earthquakes will strike at one of the most densely populated parts of the world.

 

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Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:02 | 6084509 Haus-Targaryen
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Oh come on.  Why not LA? 

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:05 | 6084522 MonetaryApostate
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Keep Calm &

Frack On ?

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:12 | 6084547 Stuck on Zero
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Someone should remeasure Mt. Everest.  It's probably a foot taller following the quake.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:24 | 6084592 TeamDepends
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Those wackjobs at CERN must be fooling around again.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:35 | 6084659 Oh regional Indian
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TeamD, you're right, these are not natural quakes.

Anyone who does not believe in geoengineering at this scale needs to dive into the USPTO a little.

Indian market crashed as well (700 points today).

This is what happens when the planets are messed with.

...

Peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzESrhRrkTI

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:44 | 6084712 clooney_art
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I have a feeling Mt. Everest is getting taller.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 21:12 | 6087602 conscious being
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Shorter. Lamtang Himalaya, east of Everest, dropped up to 1.5 meters in the big April quake according to Guardian.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:50 | 6084747 TeamDepends
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Yep. We should all be asking ourselves why there is a statue of Shiva the Destroyer inside the CERN facility. Tyler, this would make an interesting thread.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:57 | 6084768 Chupacabra-322
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I'm ignorant on this one. Can you brief me on CERN ? Just the short of it.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:00 | 6084774 knukles
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Are you CERNtain you really want to know, because once you became part of the cabal, you can never stop drinking the blood of the innocent children

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:41 | 6084915 Chupacabra-322
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The suspense is killing me.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 13:41 | 6085608 MonetaryApostate
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Like I fooking said...

Keep Calm & FRACK ON!!!

http://fracking.einnews.com/country/nepal

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:46 | 6084929 TeamDepends
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Well, while we are by no means experts on this, it is impossible not to come to the conclusion that they are trying to open a Stargate/wormhole. In other words, they are unleashing unimaginable amounts of energy and for what? Also, there have been suspicious deaths (=murder) of genius-level scientists and physicists who were aware of what CERN is all about.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:53 | 6084952 Skateboarder
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They want to provide free power to the world lolololo

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 12:42 | 6085320 Herd Redirectio...
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Demonic portals?  Interdimensional gateways?  Who can say.  In medieval times, those superstitious peasants of Christendom believed in demons.  Those in the Near East believed in a near identical concept, known as 'djinn'.

But these eltitists, they wouldn't 'sell their soul', would they?  LOL, I admit I am unsure of the process of how a sociopath goes about selling their soul.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 11:16 | 6085009 Chupacabra-322
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Hence,

All the child sacrifice by these Pure Evil Lucerferians. These Psychopaths believe a human sacrifice, especially a child grants them even more power by their Demon ruler.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 21:16 | 6087613 conscious being
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Even if they don't believe the mumbo jumbo, it keeps the toadies in line. As Cathy O'Brien says, there is not statute of limitations on murder.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 13:16 | 6085486 malek
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Somebody played too much "Doom", me thinks

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 11:44 | 6085116 Matt
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CERN is the place with the big particle accelerators, currently the Large Hadron Collider. It is also where HTML, the language that powers the world wide web, was born. Some people fear that they could create micro black holes or do something else that destroys the world, but they assure us this is not possible. However, they have a statue of Shiva the Destroyer at the front of the facility:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8h5nIlVBTAU/maxresdefault.jpg 

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 21:19 | 6087620 conscious being
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Matt fyi, bad link. Maybe they "pulled it"?

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 17:03 | 6086529 Jack Napier
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CERN runs a particle collider where they send atoms at the speed of light around a giant circuit and smash them into each other to create a mini-big bang or black hole in search of the Higgs Boson which is a particle that must exist in order to prevent the foundation of science from crumbling, but was never actually found. They believe it's been found with circumstancial evidence, but there is still a lack of hard evidence.

CERN was briefly shutdown a couple years ago, because "reverberations from the future" caused a feedback loop and overloaded their equipment. Messing with time/space like that is definitely ignorant and dangerous, but it's not a likely cause of earthquakes elsewhere on the planet.

What is far more likely is the HAARP program, which messes with the Earth's ionosphere, and which the Russian State Duma stated was a global threat way back in 2002.

http://fas.org/irp/program/collect/haarp-duma.htm

It's been stated by credible sources that earthquakes can be manufacturered after all.

https://www.google.com/search?q=william+cohen+earthquakes+triggering

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 21:22 | 6087637 conscious being
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Thanks Jack for both interesting links. The Duma link casts light on the "they're all in it together" theory. Calling Team Depends. Take a look.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:03 | 6084788 crazytechnician
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Yeah earthquakes in a mountain region , how bizarre , FYI those mountains were put there naturally BY earthquakes , (not the illuminati you muppet)

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 13:28 | 6085552 Zoomorph
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Hey you athiest, God created those mountains!

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:25 | 6084857 NevadaMirage
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Or maybe the natural processes that formed the tallest mountain in the world are still working?

Nah, it's a conspiracy!

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:35 | 6084657 thetruthhurts
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It is what happens when you live on the fault line of a subcontentent crashing in to asia...

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 11:29 | 6085053 Calmyourself
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Word is it sank an inch from the first one, maybe it went up two this time..

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:22 | 6084533 ebworthen
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That's where the Buddha moved to.

It does seem that the most poor and downtrodden get hit with this stuff.

The late great Golden State may yet get its turn; or the U.S. itself if the Yellowstone Caldera blows.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:25 | 6084599 NoVa
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ZH advertisements are very inappropriate - my page is ads for Six Flags amusement park (where people pay money to get rattled and thrashed for "amusement"), and other ads for immunizations and car baby seats.

just saying - 

 

NoVa

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 12:02 | 6085177 Matt
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ads are generally based on your browsing history ...

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:05 | 6084523 1stepcloser
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Stop plate tectonics 

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:14 | 6084535 ebworthen
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Elon Musk is on it!

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:39 | 6084680 Oh regional Indian
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More like the USA needs to declare a war on tectonic plates.
That usually stops offenders short.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 21:24 | 6087655 conscious being
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But then we arm both sides.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 13:22 | 6085516 JuliaS
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Rule them illegal. That ought to put an end to earhquakes.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:10 | 6084525 tony wilson and...
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bbc as source is not valid anymore.
they predict events 30 mins before they happen.
they are jimmy sa vile child rape
saturn control grid.

not enough money was raised from the last sy op
tavistock keepin busy
charity a rabbi scam
ask jewish bono or geldoff

not enough children where shipped to tel aviv last time.
so they been haarp hit again or maybe not.
children are being taken from nepal and carried off planes at ben gurion.
why are grown idf elton john david soft furnishings type men doing with nepals children.
where are the real moms and dads of these kids.
what the fuck

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:13 | 6084550 MonetaryApostate
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Oops we made a boo boo, better send some Aid Relief because our fracking just fubared 50 billion dollars worth of a civilization... 

 

(Oops my bad economics)

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:16 | 6084558 Cangaroo.TNT
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Let me guess... they also stole all the keys from your keyboard that help with punctuation and other language devices that help construct coherent sentences.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:50 | 6084748 headhunt
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He thinks he is the Haiku king

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:11 | 6084540 adr
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Well the next billionaire that climbs Everest can set a new record for highest climb. Hopefully he'll die there too.

The Earth is waking up and the plates are moving. California is next. Hopefully San Franshithole will be reduced to ruins and trillions of dollars of stock market paper will disappear along with it. Can Facebook still exist if Zuckerberg and the rest of his building collapse into a smoldering pile of servers?

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:12 | 6084543 localizer
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Poor Nepalese cannot get a break... wishing them all the strength!

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:15 | 6084554 kowalli
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poor people...(((

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:19 | 6084570 gmak
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When  will that global warming leave us alone?

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:30 | 6084618 knukles
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Pesky.
You left out the "pesky" global warming.
Dear leader wants grammar to be a settled science, yo mothafukah, sheet....

http://www.westernjournalism.com/liberal-california-education-group-blac...

                     You believe this shit?  Now apologizing for laziness and incompetence?
                                  SO YOU LIBERALS SAYING IT IS GENETIC?

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 12:59 | 6085390 Herd Redirectio...
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*BRAIN EXPLODES*

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:29 | 6084625 rsnoble
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Those people need gun control.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:30 | 6084635 Abitdodgie
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You see it is not to much CO2 or not enough O2 it is heavy nitrogen that is cauding global warming , what happens is as the electricity moves through the wires  in the grid it makes the ntrogen change and makes it heavy and so causes global warming.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:45 | 6084717 Tinky
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For those who may be inclined to make light of this sad situation, I offer an anecdote.

Roughly 35 years ago I was trekking in the Annapurna region of Nepal. During one stretch, I was accompanied by two British men, and we stopped at a well on the narrow path to drink some water. We then continued on, and six hours later (I kid you not), a Nepalese man (possibly a Sherpa) caught up with us and was excited about something. He produced a Rolex, which one of the Englishmen had somehow left at the well, and – get this – refused a reward.

For some perspective, that watch was worth not months, but years of labor for this poor man, and yet...

Fantastic people.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 09:56 | 6084763 IridiumRebel
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I've got an activist friend who flew there last week to help. She's terrified and ok, but coming home early. Her pictures have been breathtaking. I hope these simple people recover well.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:06 | 6084778 tony wilson and...
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activist friend A
soros funded maybe
the world is fucked because of activists most of the groups kosher run child wranglers for the sex industry,slave trades.

look into live organ harvesting tel aviv the world leader.

your activist friend is probably an energy vampyre

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:57 | 6084936 IridiumRebel
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She goes on her own dime. She is funded by no one but her own will and care for others. It takes balls. You bitching on ZH does absolutely nothing. It's easy yet weak to sit back and define all problems of the world by one thing. The fact is that it's a confluence of suck. Many fluid working parts of shittiness. To boil everything down to one thing from earthquake response to monetary policy is simple. I don't deny invisible hands but one umbrella off things all coming from one entity exposes your lack vision for the big picture. So sit back, call me an "insert anti-semitic/pro-Israeli" whatever and soak in your hate.....that blanket of ease that renders you inept to common bitching in word play on a blog.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:03 | 6084787 Seek_Truth
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Cool story, bro.

I met a guy named Carl who relayed the following amazing story to me:

"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas.  A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:09 | 6084810 tony wilson and...
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brics cause and rothschild fx
pure gladio

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:50 | 6084940 q99x2
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People are scared and they don't know what is going on," said CNN iReporter

Well no shit. They have a CNN reporter putting out information.


Tue, 05/12/2015 - 11:03 | 6084982 Shad_ow
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Lol.

Just like Amerika.

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 15:56 | 6086254 XitSam
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Twice? Clear evidence that God hates the Nepalese heathens. 

/sarc

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 17:25 | 6086673 Max Steel
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Chinese underground HAARP maybe ? 

I felt tremors too living in Delhi is not safe :P

 

Wed, 05/13/2015 - 01:14 | 6088288 onmail
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So has Mara declared victory with these quakes ?..
Or is it waking up with a vengeance.
.
.
With so much sexual perversion & violence in the world,
looks like Mara is raising its head
to prove that it rules.
Submit u earthlings.
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