* 6.0 AND GREATER EARTHQUAKES ARE REPORTED ON THIS SITE
AND ALL EARTHQUAKE STATS PERTAIN ONLY TO 6.0 AND GREATER MAGNITUDE
QUAKES.
Map: CSEM-EMSC
A great 7.8
magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, 2015, at 06:11:26.3 UTC,
at a depth of 10 km, reported CSEM-EMSC.
Officials in Nepal put the preliminary death toll at 1,157, nearly all of them in the valley around Katmandu, reported The New York Times. People frantically began digging for survivors with bulldozers, hacksaws, rebar and ...
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