I really worry about the earthquake in Nepal. People really need to be aware for the disaster prevention in advance. No political forces can save from this disaster. Kathmandu will really get devastated.

There are many bahals and houses in old toles, which are more vulnerable.

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http://thdl.org/texts/reprints/nepali_times/Nepali_Times_178.pdf

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(Below) Kathmandu hotels eagerly add additional stories to concrete frame structures that will be severely stressed during a future Himalayan earthquake. The Kathmandu valley was damaged by severe shaking in earthquakes in 1255, 1833 and 1934. (from Hough and Bilham, After the Earth Quakes, Oxford 2006).

cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/Earthquakes2006.htm

www.bytesforall.org/8th/earthquake_nepal2.htm

www.geohaz.org/contents/projects/kathmandu.html

The size of tops go on increasing with each floor, and these houses are very common in Kathmandu, being more vulnerable to earthquakes.

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सुन सुन दाजुभाई हो म केहि भन्छु
९० सालको भुकम्पको सवाई कहन्छु
मनमा भजि हरि एकचित्त गरी
सबले सुनिरहु ।

पौस गयो माघ लाग्यो २ गतेको मिति
नक्षत्र पूर्वखाडा औसिको है तिथि
वेलुकाको २ बजे फेरि सांझ पहरा
लागि गयो कम्पिन जमिन थरहर
डगमग गरेर ।

कोई भन्थे मेरो मेरो भर्थे अन्न धान
सातै दीप कम्पिदा बिर्से तिनले ज्ञान
अड्डा र अमालमा गर्थे कच्चहरि
लाग्यो घोर कलि भयो ढलिमलि
डगमग गरेर ।

९० सालको भुईचालो सम्झिदै मेरो ९० वर्षिय हजुरबा बाट आजै प्राप्त आंसिक श्लोकहरु।

natural disastar is inevitable. we can't escape but we can act today to minimize the risk and degree of aftermath destruction.

Let us act today. Friends, if we all people here in sajha, i guess most of us living abroad recommend our parents or neighbour not to expand the house vertically but horizontally and prepare for the the aftermath. it will be a lot.
jayamatadi

http://asc-india.org/menu/gquakes-map.htm

This page displays select earthquakes in south Asia i.e India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan & the Maldives that have been chosen on the basis of their magnitude or their reported maximum intensity. Running the cursor over any of the coloured dots will reveal the name, date & magnitude/intensity of a particular event.

Series of tremors hit eastern Taplejung

A series of tremors have hit eastern parts of Taplejung district on Wednesday.

According to reports, moderate to strong jolts were felt by villagers on Wednesday, which is said to have damaged dozens of houses and killed unknown number of cattle in around seven VDCs including Mehele, Khewang and Mamankhe.

As per the report by Nepal Television, Nilgiri secondary school in Mehele, too, has been damaged by the jolt. Human casualties, however, have not been reported yet.

The report said that on Wednesday, strong quakes – whose intensity in the Richter scale are yet to be known – hit the region at 10 am, 1 pm and 3 pm .

Terrified by the series of shocks and aftershocks, villagers are staying in open spaces, said the report.

Security teams is said to have been dispatched to the region to assess the situation and help the villagers. The affected villages lie some one and a half days of walking distance away from district headquarters.

Meanwhile, 23 persons were injured when lightening struck Thumsing village of Sindhupalchowk district on Wednesday afternoon. nepalnews.com sd May 16 07

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/may/may16/news18.php

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Somehow, the website saw me as trying to promote some websites; here it goes again about today's story of Bangkok towers being shaken by 6.1 Richter scale

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/laos.earthquake.ap/index.html