A strong (7.8) earthquake hit Nepal in the area near Barpak, a mountain village between capital Kathmandu and tourist town Pokhara. The earthquake was followed by many powerful aftershocks and a very powerful one (6.7) hit Nepal on Sunday April 26.
The earthquakes caused extensive damage to buildings and thousands of deaths and injuries and was even felt in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Many (historic) buildings collapsed, temples have been ruined, roads destroyed. Nearly 9000 deaths in Nepal and tens of deaths in India & Tibet. The quake was followed by more than 430 aftershocks and another huge earthquake (6.8) on May 12.
The 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake),which killed more than 7000 people and injured more than twice as many, occurred at .
More than eight and a half thousand people died in the two major earthquakes which hit Nepal in April and May 2015. The UN estimates almost three million .
In this special report, BBC journalists spent a day hearing from those who have been affected by the Nepal earthquake in a city trying to get back on its feet.
Earthquake: Disaster In Nepal 2015 Nepal Earthquake Discovery Full documentary, Full Program Documentary of Nepal Earthquake.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
7:16 PM
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