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Hit by Avalanche in Everest Basecamp 25.04.2015 Published on Apr 26, 2015
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Acrid, white smoke rose above the Hindu temple, Nepal's most revered. “I've watched hundreds of bodies burn,” Dhungana said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-terrifying-video-shows-moment-avalanche-hit-everest-base-camp-10205812.html
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Hit by Avalanche in Everest Basecamp 25.04.2015 Published on Apr 26, 2015The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives
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Nepal earthquake live: Death toll rises to more than 3,600 as video reveals the moment deadly Mount Everest disaster struck
The avalanche buried part of the base camp packed with around 400 foreign climbers who were preparing to make the summit.
Filmed by German climber Jost Kobusch on Saturday, the video shows the camp of yellow tents decorated with colourful Nepalese prayer flags as he realises “the ground is shaking.”
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The mood becomes tense when the campers realise that a huge avalanche is rushing towards them.
Climbers swear and pant in fear as the avalanche careers above their heads, leaving them covered in snow.
As the shaken, snow-covered campers discuss where to shelter, the sheer force of the avalanche becomes clear as they realise the kitchen tent has been crushed by snow.
An operation to evacuate around 100 mountaineers from higher camps to the base camp has started, as three helicopters were running shuttles into camps in the Western Cwm, the Guardianreported.
James Grieve, of Kinross, Scotland, was among those stranded.
"Everyone is apprehensive about what’s happening and what will happen in the next 24 hours," he told the Sun. "Our tents have all been lost and we have around 18 dead bodies at base camp.
"There is a lot of confusion in the camp and there are still about 120 of us here waiting to be rescued.
"We are in a race against time to get off the mountain," he said, adding that he feared up to 50 people had been killed.
Britons Alex Schneider and Sam Chappattee, both 28, who were on their honeymoon, as well as Daniel Mazur, a climbing expedition leader from Bristol, were among the survivors at the base camp.
However, Daniel Fredinburg, a senior American executive at the Google search engine, was among the dead.
The death toll following Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake has risen to 3,218, according to Deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh. 1,000 of those victims were in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital. This figure does not include the 18 people confirmed dead in the avalanche, who were counted by the mountaineering association.
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A further 61 people were killed in neighbouring India, and China reported 20 people dead in Tibet, according to the Associated Press.
Tens of thousands of people fearing further aftershocks were forced to sleep outdoors for a second night on Sunday evening, camping in parks, open squares and a golf course.
Tents and water are being distributed at ten locations in the capital, Kathmandu district chief administrator Ek Narayan Aryal said.
“There have been nearly 100 earthquakes and aftershocks, which is making rescue work difficult. Even the rescuers are scared and running because of them,” he said.
“We don't feel safe at all. There have been so many aftershocks. It doesn't stop,” said Rajendra Dhungana, 34, who spent Sunday with his niece's family for her cremation at the Pashuputi Nath Temple.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-terrifying-video-shows-moment-avalanche-hit-everest-base-camp-10205812.html
Sunday 26 April 2015
But this time, the devastation was much greater than usual, as the country fell victim to its biggest seismic event in 80 years.
The first problem was the power of the quake, coming in at magnitude 7.8, which one expert described as similar to having 20 thermonuclear hydrogen bombs – each many times greater than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima – ripping through the Kathmandu Valley.
Second, the epicentre of the earthquake was only 40 miles to the north-west of the most highly populated part of Nepal, the capital city of Kathmandu.
Further compounding the impact was the shallowness of the earthquake, at just 10 to 15km below ground, meaning that the shaking was felt much more strongly. Deeper quakes have more earth to absorb the shaking.
Earthquakes are typically followed by a flurry of aftershocks, which tend to reduce in strength and frequency as time goes on. These can be
felt hundreds of miles away. One such aftershock occurred just half an hour after the main earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.6, and more than 20 others have followed since.
The concern is that, although the magnitudes deteriorate, they can continue to inflict significant damage on buildings already weakened by previous activity.
Nepal is particularly susceptible to earthquakes because of its position at the junction of the two giant tectonic plates that push Everest and the rest of the Himalayan mountain range a few millimetres higher every year.
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The upward climb of the world’s highest mountain range is accompanied by numerous tremors as one giant slab of rock – the Indian tectonic plate – moves northwards at a rate of two inches a year, pressing up against another great slab – the Eurasian tectonic plate – in the process, which geologically speaking is very fast.
As the plates push against each other, friction generates stress and energy that builds until the earth’s crust ruptures. It is this movement that triggered the quake.
However, although the quake has caused colossal damage, it could have been even worse. Most areas touched by the earthquake lie on solid bedrock, which to an extent limits the amount of shaking – with the exception of the Northern Plains, near the Nepalese border, where the surface sands and silts shook more than the solid rock elsewhere.