# 7.9-Magnitude Earthquake Near Kathmandu **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519 "2015-04-25T16:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/21 "2015-04-26T02:50:35Z")
It is good news! I’m sure they’re are so many who lost family or who haven’t heard from anyone. She is lucky. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/22 "2015-04-26T17:37:22Z")
just read Nepal-Earthquake Warning story [http://news.yahoo.com/experts-gathered-nepal-week-ago-ready-earthquake-050003819.html](http://news.yahoo.com/experts-gathered-nepal-week-ago-ready-earthquake-050003819.html) which stated that lots of densely populated people living in substandard buildings (before a now weak building code existed) were at risk. mention of that inheritance laws required property to be divided equally and that to get living space the people added living space building vertically. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/23 "2015-04-26T20:41:56Z")
The family received word late last night, from a 3rd party, that the three brothers are fine. Apparently they are at a spot just below basecamp and are unable to descend. They will need to continue up to basecamp for the time being. Whomever they spoke to said it might be awhile until they are able to make it down. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/24 "2015-04-26T20:53:42Z")
Sorry they’re stuck but glad to hear they are ok! ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/25 "2015-04-26T21:43:01Z")
I believe they were going to spend a month anyway, so they have the necessary supplies. It will be a hell of story I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/26 "2015-04-27T03:25:20Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > I can’t tell you how sad this makes me. Kathmandu is hands down my favorite city in the world. > > When I was there, I picked up this eccentric little self-published book of walking tours by an author who really knew his stuff. Every corner, every alley, every block of Kathmandu is just brimming with history. Like, the book instructed me to peek into a little niche in a staircase by a dusty computer repair store. In that niche is a little Buddha statue…that is 2,000 years old. There is stuff like that on every street, it’s just breathtaking. > > The loss of life is atrocious. The number of gorgeous, fabled, irreplaceable buildings that have been lost makes me want to cry. I’m hearing that the Patan Durbar Square-- one of the most stunning temple complexes on earth-- is completely razed. This is all just such an enormous loss. > > My thoughts are with the people of Nepal. Yeah, the Kathmandu Valley is one of my favorite places in the world, up there with Hawaii. I know what you mean about 2000-year-old statues on every street. Every time we’d turn a corner, we’d see one no matter how small the street and often with people’s laundry drying on it! Looks like it may have been 7.8 magnitude after all. The reports seems to have settled on that number now. And the death toll has passed 3200. I’m curious how so much stuff survived the 1934 earthquake if it was indeed worse. Was it deeper? They say the devastation for this one is so bad because it was so close to the surface. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/27 "2015-04-27T06:19:05Z")
I have a good friend whose husband is Nepalese. As it happens, the entire family in Nepal were together for some kind of family celebration when the earthquake struck. So, with one phone call my friend and her husband were able to ascertain that 100% of their relatives living in Nepal were okay. They are all living on the matriarch’s lawn at the moment. My son’s best friend just spent about 4 months living in Nepal studying Buddhism. I can’t imagine how frantic we’d be if he were there now (he’s only 16). Thank god he left a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/28 "2015-04-27T23:15:14Z")
Wife’s family has made it down to Dingboche. they will be staying there for the time being. From their communications it seems the full scope of the tragedy isn’t widely known there. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/29 "2015-04-27T23:34:31Z")
My student just emailed me. Her family just got rocked by a huge aftershock. They’re getting pretty desperate there for food, water and shelter. She said her friends are feeling hopeless. Awful. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/30 "2015-05-12T14:03:39Z")
They’ve had another large quake. > **[Nepal earthquake: Dozens die in new tremor near Everest](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701385)** > > Dozens die as a new earthquake of magnitude 7.3 strikes Nepal, two weeks after a devastating tremor killed more than 8,000. Dozens more dead. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519/31 "2015-05-12T15:51:18Z")
And the death toll from the first quake is not 800; it is now 8,000 > [@](#): > > A powerful earthquake shook Nepal on Tuesday, less than three weeks after a devastating temblor there killed more than 8,000 people > **[Weeks After Deadly Nepal Quake, Another Temblor Revives Fears (Published 2015)](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-east-of-kathmandu.html)** > > Dozens of deaths and more than a thousand injuries were reported in the quake, which came just weeks after the devastating April 25 temblor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-9-magnitude-earthquake-near-kathmandu/718519.md?page=1)