Medicine & TechnologyIn the midst of digging out from the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck Nepal just three weeks ago, residents of Kathmandu find themselves once again in recovery mode. A powerful aftershock, with a preliminary magnitude registering 7.3, struck just east of Nepal's capital on Tuesday, sending an already rattled community running for cover yet again.
After days of being pinned beneath up to 10 feet of rubble, four men were rescued in Nepal thanks to NASA search-and-rescue technology. This marks the first real-world use of NASA's advanced sensing technology.
The loss of life to the earthquake stricken areas of Nepal has been catastrophic, but now survivors are facing a new threat that could pose an even greater risk that the quake and its aftershocks - disease.
A team at NASA located in the Pacific Palisades of Los Angeles is using the latest in satellite technology to assist with the rescue efforts of earthquake victims after last month's magnitude 7.9 quake that rocked Nepal.
In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Nepal, International rescue and relief teams have begun to converge on Kathmandu, Nepal's capital. Rescuers continue to poor in to the city even as hope fades that more survivors will be found. The quake that hit on Saturday has now been reported to have claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people.
A magnitude 6.7 aftershock has rocked the already earthquake ravaged Nepal, sending residents of Kathmandu running for safety and triggering even more avalanches on Mount Everest. This latest aftershock struck north east of Kathmandu near the Nepal border with China at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
A powerful earthquake struck in Nepal on Saturday near its capital, Katmandu, flattening many sections of the city's historic center trapping dozens of people in a 200-foot watchtower that crumbled into a pile rubble.
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