Rescue operations are resuming in Nepal which has been hit by second major earthquake under 3 weeks. Dozens of people were killed, more that thousand others injured and the full extent of the latest damages is still being assessed. Many people have spent the night outside fearing the collapse of buildings damaged by the earthquake.
There are many buildings in Nepal which are damaged from the first earthquake earlier this month. This time the new tremor happened when the parliament was in session trying to figure out how to rebuild the shattered country when politicians were caught in the middle of another quake.
The new earthquake and several powerful aftershocks hit devastated Nepal on Tuesday sending terrified residents running into the streets of the traumatised capital.
The 7.3-magnitude quake struck at 12:35 pm, some 76 kilometres (47 miles) east of Kathmandu, the US Geological Survey said, more than two weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake which killed more than 8,000 people.
Tuesday’s quake was felt as far away as New Delhi, and officials said it caused buildings to collapse in Tibet in neighboring China.
A second tremor of 6.3-magnitude struck around half an hour later, followed by yet more aftershocks, according to the USGS.
The ground swayed for close to a minute from the first of Tuesday’s tremors, according to an AFP correspondent in Kathmandu.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), which has a number of teams on the ground in the wake of the April 25 quake, said four people were crushed to death when buildings collapsed in Chautara, east of Kathmandu.
Map of Nepal locating a 7.3-magnitude quake and several aftershocks
Nepalese patients lie on stretchers in an open area after being carried out of a hospital building as a powerful earthquake hits Kathmandu
Nepalese people stand in opean areas of Kathmandu as a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits the Himalayan country on May 12, 2015
Indian hospital staff attend to a schoolgirl who fainted as a tremor struck Siliguri,
An Indian patient is watched at Siliguri Hospital as a new earthquake rattled Nepal
Indian college students write examination papers as they sit on a field in Siliguri,