Update 09:21 UTC : OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
Situation Overview as published by OCHA yesterday May 1
Six days into the response, the ongoing relief efforts continue to focus on reaching a greater number of areas, in particular the remote and hard-to-reach areas where many of the poorest and most affected remain. It is becoming evident that a scale-up of operations is required to ensure immediate and principled assistance reaches people in desperate need within the next six weeks, in advance of the monsoon season. After the field visits and meetings with Government authorities and partners, the Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos emphasized the urgent need to provide emergency shelter and basic goods and services to people affected, as the weather conditions continue to deteriorate.
Following initial assessments, the Government has extended the most affected area to include Makawanpur and Sindhuli districts, in addition to Bhaktapur, Dhading, Dolakha, Gorkha, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Lamjung, Rasuwa, Ramechhap, Nuwakot, and Sindulpalchowk.
The United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) teams have traveled to Dhading and Gorkha, where the team has set-up a humanitarian hub for the area. On 2 May, another team is scheduled to arrive in Sindulpachowk District.
In Gorkha, the UNDAC team has found that there is a dire need for shelter, particularly tents and blankets. Access to some remote villages remains a key challenge as many landing zones are unsafe due to debris, altitude and current weather conditions. Road access is limited. Some remote villages can only be accessed by helicopters.
Many people continue to sleep in the open due to fear of aftershock and many more have lost their homes in the earthquake, particularly in Gorkha and Nuwakot. The local weather bureau has forecasted unusually heavy rain for the coming days. This will place additional strain on the people who have already lost family members and friends, as well as much of their belongings.
The Kathmandu Airport remains open for 24 hours. However, limited landing slots and the prioritization of movements of in-country air assets continue to delay the arrival of relief goods from abroad. Furthermore, humanitarian partners have reported that taxes are increasing and competition for transport of relief goods is expanding.
In some of the most affected areas, there have been unconfirmed reports of looting of relief goods. In addition, mentions regarding distributions of relief goods not reaching all members of the affected community in an equitable manner began to circulate in social and mainstream media. Vulnerable and marginalized groups risk further exclusion by not having access to critical life-saving assistance.
Update 08:59 UTC : Drone footage shot by CNN shows villages in Nepal in need of aid, but are unreachable due to landslides.
Update 08:56 UTC : Effect.org flies drone over the historical Baktapur to reveal just how dire the situation is. As shown, the area has been completely destroyed by the earthquake. Water and medical supplies are running short and concerns of a cholera outbreak are high
Update 08:23 UTC : A number of very interesting MapAction maps who use the Open Maps system to help Aid organizations. Click on the map below twatch it in full PDF size.
Update 07:43 UTC : Some people are still searching for friends and relatives who were in Nepal at the time of the earthquake. The Nepal government has disclosed a list from those who were already registered. A lot are still unaccounted for (missing). The people behind Earthquake-report.com do send their sincere condolences to all those affected by this tragedy, not only the friends and families of the unfortunate on this list, but also to the thousands of Nepali, Indian, Bangladesh and Tibetan families. Clicking on the images will make them a little bit bigger. The list can also be watched in PDF
We publish this list because we get regular requests of people searching for loved ones.
Update 07:28 UTC : As could be expected after 1 week, the Nepal Government has declared that there in no longer a chance to find living people under the debris which translated means that they will give up Search and Rescue missions. After the GOLDEN 72 hours, the chance of finding people alive is decreasing gradually and only some miracles tend to happen. Luckily Nepal proved that many miracles did happen with the biggest one the baby who is now in great health with his mother again. He will carry a great story in his future life
Update 06:05 UTC : A new relatively strong aftershock (M5) happened in the mainshock area and was felt all over Nepal. We expect this aftershock to further damage houses and infrastructure who was already badly damaged in a radius of 30 km around the epicenter .
Update 23:04 UTC : A recount of what happened during the earthquake and afterwards by Gemma Hume :
Excerpt :
I had stayed on after going out to Nepal to do a workshop on energy access in order to take a couple of weeks holiday, and was due to fly out on Saturday afternoon. I was in Thamel (the backpacker/shopping part of Kathmandu) at midday when the earthquake struck.
As if the ground had turned to liquid
Have you have ever been on a cable bridge – where as someone else treads on it, it shakes? It was as if the whole world was like that – as if the ground had turned to liquid.
I was pretty scared. I was in a narrow street, I didn’t have a map and I didn’t know exactly where I was. People were crouching in doorways to take cover and as soon as the quake was over we all ran to the nearest open space.
It was a pretty frightening few minutes, and I immediately decided that I could do without any more pashminas or other gifts to take back with me, and headed straight back, out of Thamel’s narrow streets, to the hotel I’d been staying in on Durbar Marg.
On the way back to the hotel I saw a few walls and some electricity poles fallen into the road, and a couple of people with minor injuries, but nothing which gave me any idea of the real scale of destruction. Read the full article here
Update 22:35 UTC : We received the following message from Andrew Becker :
I am writing to let you know that there are currently independent relief efforts being led to the village of Chaukati in Sindhupalchowk region in Nepal. If you could spread that message, letting people know that it’s being covered and to spread out relief efforts to the many other places that still need it, that would be greatly appreciated.
Update 16:39 UTC : An interesting article in the Nepal Times about the seismologist responsible for the Nepal SeismologicalCenter
Excerpt :
After checking if his children and wife were safe, he jumped on his cousin’s bike heading to Lainchaur. “Duty first,” he says. “I could have monitored the earthquake from home, but the network wasn’t working.”
The chief of National Seismological Centre was soon joined by the seismologists, Umesh Gautam, Ratnamani Gupta and Bharat Koirala, as well as the system engineer, Eric Sauvage. Later, the deputy director general of Department of Mines and Geology completed the team.
The National Seismological Centre had a difficult time after the first earthquake. One of the two computers was down. The signals received at the laboratory were saturated, so the magnitude couldn’t be determined. “We had to wait for Surkhet’s centre to send the data,” says Adhikari. They received it right before the 6.6 aftershock. Read the full article here
Update 15:03 UTC : 260,000 Children homeless in Nepal (Save the Children)
One week on from the deadly earthquake in Nepal, Save the Children warns that more than a quarter of a million children whose homes were destroyed face months living outside in harsh conditions.
The charity is warning that in the most remote mountainous regions, only reachable currently by helicopter, children and babies are sleeping outdoors without any protection from the cold night time temperatures and heavy rainfall.
In more accessible areas tarpaulins, blankets and baby kits have been distributed in temporary displacement camps, but children remain vulnerable to disease from the cold and unsanitary conditions they are living in.
Kesang, a first time mother speaking from the maternity ward, said she was terrified of taking her new born baby back to sleep outside. “We only have a plastic sheet to cover us and the ground easily becomes flooded – we have to stay standing all night. Disease spreads easily in these conditions, I’m really worried that my baby and I will get sick.” Parents sleeping outside are reporting fevers, outbreaks of diarrhoea and the risk of pneumonia. There is also a serious risk from asbestos – many homes and offices in Nepal were built using asbestos and the earthquake has exposed it.
Sarah Ireland, Save the Children’s Humanitarian Advocacy Manager in Nepal, said: “A week on from the earthquake, the full scale of the devastation is just becoming clear. Many of these 260,000 children have lost everything – their homes, their warm clothes and tragically sometimes their families.”
“The risk of disease outbreaks and exposure are very real, especially for young children. That is why we are moving fast to get hygiene kits, tarpaulins and warm children’s sleeping bags out to everyone who needs them.” Save the Children has distributed much of its existing in-country emergency relief stock, reaching thousands of people with shelter kits, baby clothes, cooking utensils and more. Three planes and several trucks have been loaded with more supplies in India, Dubai and Philippines and have begun to arrive in Nepal.
The organization is also now setting up Child Friendly Spaces for children to play and be safe in the displacement camps that have sprung up across the affected areas.
Update 12:18 UTC : 1,000 Europeans are missing, 12 confirmed dead following a statement of the EU ambassador
Important Update 10:56 UTC : EKantipur wrote a little earlier the following :
Keep in mind that only a few Nepali people do trust the government as widespread corruption is part of daily life in Nepal.
Nepal Government to take all bank deposits meant for disaster relief
The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) issued a circular to A, B and C class banks in the country on Thursday afternoon stating that all the amount deposited in them for the purpose of relief for Saturday’s Great Quake will be automatically transferred to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund. “Due to the disaster caused by the Great Quake, all the accounts opened in banks and financial institutions by different organizations for collecting donations will be earmarked and the amount in them will be transferred to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund,” read the circular. The NRB has cited the powers conferred to it by section 79 of the Nepal Rastra Bank Act, 2002 for issuing the circular. The central bank has also asked the financial institutions to send daily reports of total deposits in those accounts. Onlinekhabar reported that Finance Minister Ram Saran Mahat brought the proposal at Thursday’s cabinet meeting.
Nepal and corruption
Nepal has slipped ten places on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of Transparency Inter-national, earning a dubious distinction as one of the most corrupt states in the world.
The annual survey by the Berlin-based watchdog has placed Nepal in 126th position with a score of 29 among 175 countries. It was placed 116th on the index among 176 countries last year. The CPI measures the extent of corruption within a country on a scale ranging from zero to 100. Countries securing higher scores are rated as the least corrupt and those with low scores are perceived to the most corrupt.
According to the TI, countries that score below 50 are perceived as highly corrupt and those that secure 100 are cleanest. Except Bhutan all South Asian countries secured scores below 50, with Afghanistan ranked the most corrupt country in the region. Bhutan is the least corrupt in the region with a score of 65, followed by India (38); Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh (29) and Afghanistan (12). Read the full article here
Update 10:03 UTC : This is the massive “thrust” earthquake “at +80 km from the epicenter” on the main temple square in Kathmandu. People cannot stand anymore because of the shaking waves. At the same time temples are gradually collapsing
Update 09:20 UTC : World Food Program Delivers Food To Remote Villages In Gorkha District
Update 08:48 UTC : This is one of the most emotional pictures i have seen so far. Sad!
Update 07:23 UTC : Aerial photos of remote Gorkha district show entire villages reduced to rubble. Entire clusters of homes have been reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood. These series of pictures are by far the best series we have seen so far. Read the full article here
Gorkha district earthquake ravage
Update 06:15 UTC : Below: These villagers in Lamjung stand and look at food dropped by army. But they haven’t gotten any.(via @AnupKaphle)
Update : ER expects a lot of fatalities. How many : too soon to make an estimate. Massive landslides alone can count for many. At least one good thing : the earthquake happened during daylight and in the Nepali spring = less victims
A cruel earthquake happened in the pre-Himalaya ranges of Nepal just in between Kathmandu and Pokara. We expected a lot of devastation and massive landslides
35km (22mi) E of Lamjung, Nepal
60km (37mi) NNE of Bharatpur, Nepal
75km (47mi) E of Pokhara, Nepal
76km (47mi) NW of Kirtipur, Nepal
77km (48mi) NW of Kathmandu, Nepal
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 7.8
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2015-04-25 11:56:26
GMT/UTC Time : 2015-04-25 06:11:26
Depth (Hypocenter) : 18 km
Depth and Magnitude updates in the list below.
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Kathmandu - Very strong shaking of about one min felt in kathmandu
bhaktapur - Severe shaking .. several cracks occurred on the floors
Chitwan National Park - No noise. But shaking of buildings and ground continued for several minutes.
Godavari Nepal - Very strong and long lasting quake with sizable damage. Around 11:55 or noon today. Now aftershocks still shaking.
pokhara - a old house has gone severe cracking in Bagar-1, Pokhara
inaruwa - i was lying at bed and suddenly it start to shake with in interval of seconds i saw wild face of earthquake.....
Jhapa - i can still feel the tremors!!
muktinath - I was in the tharpa choeling nunnery below and the whole monastery started shaking. All the rums screamed and ran out. So far, no real damage but it's scary.
biratnagar - i was playing futball suddenly earthquake came but we dont stop playing footb0l in fact we r feeling easy in running
Biratnagar - My bed was shaking and my
window was making sleepy noise. When i
stood up from bed,my legs were shaking
badly
Pokhara - it was so dangerous... me and my family are still in threat.
nawalparasi - Everything were shaking. all publics run out to the street. Nobody was feeling safe nowhere. It was the scariest earthquake i ever felt.
kathmandu - Still shaking, terrible time....:
dhangadhi - (oh really i was going to market but suddenly something felt shaking i find tht it was earthquake which shook for 10-15
seconds
khumaltar - i am feeling so afraid of that earthquake
birgunj - It was just as ship Flotting on water as it can happen any thing
Birgunj - it was most danger in our life and many property and 2 people are dead and many damaged our house and many people are felt in this type of earthquakes and
Pokhara - felt the shaking for at least 1 minute... some old houses collapsed.. no major casaulties.
Dharan - we wre walking and felt the earth shaking buildings shaking
maunath bhanjan - very strong shaking...bike stands on single stand..bike was shaking 3-4 inches...Allah ka shukr hai..no damage
shakhuwa mahendranagar in dhanshua distr - I think we Nepali are lack of information thus government must play positive role in giving pre information,thus every one shall predict the safety measure
kathmandu - Moderate shake
narayani, bara - now its not damaged anything, but i am scared of being earthuquake in ktm nepal please god save our nepal
nawalparasi - in Gaindakot moderate earthquake is occurring at Sunday morning and now all people are feeling about it and nobody is at his home
Thimphu - just lasted for few sec, not so strong to damage anything..........
Dhaka - i did not see any damage. it was 12:14 pm in Bangladesh, i am staying at the 3rd floor of an six storeyed building. it lasted for more than a minute.
Thimphu - windowa were rattling lasted for about a minute. Frightrning experience!
Dhaka - Water in pool made small tidal wave. Fans and light fixures shook. No damages reported.
dhaka - everything was shaking
rampal, Bagerhat - chair & Table are shaking. pond water is dancing.
Dhaka - The tremors stayed for at least 1 to 1.5 minutes. Everyone was coming out of the buildings.
Dhaka - Was standing on the open road. Felt moderate shaking for about 2 mins.
Dhaka - No damage in my house
Savar, Dhaka - No damage has been occurred but strong shaking we in our factory building felt.
Dhaka - Long Duration but light rolling motion felt at 11th Floor in Tejgaon area, Dhaka City. RCC Multi Storied Office Building.
Wangdue - Felt shaking chairs & seen swaying fan and surface of water in bottle on table
Dhaka - Lasted for a minute or so
faisalabad - My office in five story building and fee light shaking
Dhaka - I was in hotel room on the 18th floor, the room shaked like a small boat on ocean. Nothing is damage.
Naogaon - We felt that our apprtment building was moving from side to side. People from all homes in the building ran out. The water in the pond next to the house was moving from side to side as well. The shaking lasted for several minutes. When it calmed down, everybody went in, but ran out again after 15-20 min when it shaked again, this time a bit less and for a shorter time. This happened right after noon Bangladeshi time 25.4.2015
Dhaka - I am on 4th floor - slow gentle rocking for over a minute - I left and went to the Lobby - as ever, really crowded and nobody else seemed aware. This is a big well-built structure and it moved plenty.
Dhaka - I was able to feel it sitting on my bed. All fans, chandeliers, etc. began to shake. Felt building moving when trying to run downstairs. No damage done personally but there has been damage to several buildings around Dhaka.
Banani,Dhaka - I feel i moving and its take a minute and really its Shaking . but not damaged in my building ,but near to our building have slide damaged.
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Dhaka - I was standing behind my collegue who is working on computer, suddenly he todld me his head is Spinning and ask me to hold him, similiarly i was feeling the same, then i marked that our ceiling fan is moving side by side. Actually it was so big shocked that, we sttuned for few second. then we all left office to outside. Khasru
dhaka - Head Spinning,felt i m in swinging..inside building
Dhaka - was giving an exam felt the ground shaking was on the 7th floor of the building, some buildings have tilted...
Dhaka - I was sitting by the chair.Suddenly my laptop started to shake and my chair too. I looked above and my fan was also shaking.
Phuntsholing - i was outside and saw van in front of me shaking. and saw people coming out their hostel looking really afraid.
Dhaka - It was extreme, First Sake was unnoticeable but the 2nd and 3rd was almost a min long. it was like more than 7 scale.
Delhi - bed started vibrating felt it for 10 seconds
new delhi - i felt it
CHANDAUSI - JUST WE FELT A LITTLE BIT OF EARTHQUACK
I WAS SITTING ON THE CHAIR AND CHAIR WAS SHAKING
nawada - the bed started to shake suddenly.
delhi - i was sitting on the chair and oit was shaking like anything
Delhi - At 11:50 aal the chairs started shaking....I was in my tuition when all the students felt it. No property was damaged.
Delhi - Bed started to shake felt it for almost a minute
Delhi - it was almost 2 minutes long - Longest in my experience
New Delhi - I was staying on the 22nd floor of the hotel and I felt the bed shaking and noticed the lamp moving. There does not appear to be any damage, as I can see.
bandel - The whole house was shaking and the water in the pond was moving irratically.
Ahmedabad - Table and water in a glass started shaking for a few seconds. Hopefully, it was not my imagination.
noida - Painting were shaking
Kolkata - Bed and hanging lights were shaking and 2nd floor building was swaying....
New Delhi - Three stories house shook for about a minute. No immediate evidence of damage here or around. No indications of panic.
delhi - no damage but strong shaking
Jahangirabad,Barabanki,Uttar Pradesh - Just felt like floor is moving
New delhi - I was lying on my bed watching hannah montana and i felt like something shaking.My water bottle was on the bed and the water in it started shaking. Also my bed started shaking. Then i realised it was an earthquake.
Lucknow - Tables anfd chairs felt to be shaking. The whole office building was evacuated.
Delhi - Bed was shaking, felt it even while standing on the floor and fluid in bottles was unstable
Ahmedabad - Chairs start shacking... It was for almost 5 - 8 sec...
New Delhi - No knowledge of damage.
Ahmedabad - felt a smile tremor while standing in my lawn.... It lasted for few seconds... No damage at all
Kolkata - Table swinging
Kolkata - we felt the shaking on groundfloor it was stronh enough to make us run and come out
kolkata - Things started shaking, my chair & desk shaked
patna - Very strong earthqauke felt for 3o seconds
uttar pradesh - A moderate earthquake, i was thinking something and all the things in my room started shaking
ahmedabad - just a weak to light shaking ... fans swinging 2 to 3 inches
jaipur - slight shaking
New Delhi - I was having breakfast when the floor began to shake. I ran down and saw that several others had too. Fortunately, no damages or injuries were caused.
Meerut - Whole office were shkaing. Around 11.50 ist we felt like whole office in a boat. Shaking mild. Longest earthquake felt for moer than 20 secs.
sagarpur - The oil in the bottle was trembling ! I could see all the hanging utensils shaking ! it lasted for about 40 seconds !!!!
New Delhi - No visible damage so far.
Ahmedabad - My Table and chair started shaking side to side very noticeably.
Farakka - The building was shaking violently .
kolkata - to day about 11.40 AM to 12 PM a earth Quack has been felt by all local people.
varanasi - felt for 1-2 mins...Things fell of from places..not quite usual..stairs could be felt shaking too...
sitapur - in sitapur up india around 11.50 am our chair was shaking moderately .it persisted appx 5 minutes .
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delhi - Almost for 3 minutes felt it...
kolkata - HIMALAYAS has a tendency to shake its base plates as its still reorganising as a mountain.but what beats me is the actual epicentre is not supposed to send vibrations here.Har Har MAHADEV
Lucknoow - It was a terrible earthquake. Still I'm feeling the shake in my body. I was sitting on a chair and it suddenly started shaking.
Bareilly - Table Chair fan were shaking
kolkata - I was studying and the table started to shake
Nagaon - woot a erthqck i evr feel.................... :
Noida - (I felt strong shaking for 3-4 minutes
Guwahati - Our office building started vibrating for 15-20 seconds, we left and reached ground floor.
Ahmedabad - Chairs in office were shaking, it was felt for almost 30 seconds.
Ahmedabad - We could see that the fan was off and it started moving from its base. And then we felt that our chair was shaking too. It wasn't major but we could feel the movement easily.
bahadurgarh - I am just working on my laptop, suddenly I feel some shaking.. after 10 min. I search on internet about earthquake.. then I was confirmed that my feeling was correct
mumbai - Was sitting on the bed and could feel the tremor.
kakinada - very mild shake for about half a min
Ahmedabad - Very weak shaking
Wipro - It was quite a fearful experience for all of us as everything started swaying all of a sudden. We were all evacuated from our respective buildings. It was a jarring experience
delhi - it lasted about minute and a half
Kolkata - It was felt on the ground floor and was fairly strong
Bhopal - I felt the toilet seat shake underneath me, for a good minute or two. Made me panic.
Rajahmundry - we felt like having dizziness so we came out to a open space one reported that her water in the bottle was shaking
mumbai - Was sitting on the chair and felt as if I was moving.. wondered if I was feeling dizzy.. But it happened again.. so switched on the news channel.. confirmed it was the earthquake.
Delhi - Just felt the table and chair shaking, no damages.
Mumbai - tremor twice in difference of 10 seconds
Bhubaneswar - It was a light shake. No damages were made. Hope everything is okay out there...
New Town, Rajarhat. Kolkata - Head Spinning, Felt like falling over.
Kolkata - We felt the tremor for about 15 seconds, chairs and fans were swaying, peoples rushed out of office and guest house. Still all are outside fearing another wave may hit !
Jaipur - I was working on PC on second floor of an organization.my hands was on table and I felt some vibrations in table & lcd monitor as my hands was touched to the table.I thought I am tired so that I felt it and ignored it.But after 15 minutes I got a msg on whatsapp from one of my relative lives in Jaipur City asking me about any vibrations I felt,then I became sure about the earthquake I felt.The time was 11:45 am (GMT+5:30).
Thanks
Kolkata - Was on bed, suddenly felt it was shaking.
Around 12.00-12.21 IST felt a mild shake to.....could be aftershock........
kolkata - Table and chairs were shaking.waves of earthquake were felt.first we were feeling uneasy at first.But later made us realise it was earthquake
shahdol - thrilled the body and no one make run away to save
Gwalior - no damage cracks in the building
varanasi - My bed was shaking and my window was making sleepy noise. When i stood up from bed,my legs were shaking badly
Kolkata - Feeling very sick now
Guwahati - It lasted for few seconds
No damage yet....Never knew it was a big earthquake until i saw it in news
Kolkata - There were massive, strong & shaky tremors. All the ceiling fans in our office building were swinging. All the staff in our NCSM office rushed to the open area on Ground Floor through Staircases. It definitely will result in the loss of life & property. A second one was felt at around 12.21IST, which equally strong 6+ magnitude.
Ranchi - We were in the office doors of almirah getting trembling. Getting the note of earthquake we all officials rushed out of the office
Ahmedabad - Moderate shaking of Chair but vertical blinds shook in cabin without ventilation or air circulation. Thank God as there is no damage.
Jamshedpur - Building was shaking made everybody to evacuate.
gurgaon - fans are shaking
Jabalpur - Here in Jabalpur earthquake Stuck for two times today. First was strong but the second was quiet normal.
Gangtok - Shaking
chandigarh - I was sleeping and the bed started moving
Varanasi - The shaking woke me up and almost continued upto 20 seconds at around 11:44 IST...the aftershake was felt once again for 3-4 seconds but was with light shaking...No damage...but chaos
varanasi - J'étais sur la terrasse au 2e étage et ça bougeait. Je croyais que c'était le vent qui faisait bouger la maison (il y a de forts coups de vents depuis quelques jours)et je pensais que la maison allait s'écrouler ou que c'était moi qui avait des vertiges. Tout le monde est sorti dans la rue. Pas de dégats.
Gwalior - it was shaking for little bit but threaten me..
Varanasi - Sur la terrasse de la maison (2e étage) j'ai senti des mouvements. Je ne savais pas si c'était moi qui avait des vertiges ou si c'était le vent très fort qui faisait bouger la maison. Tout le monde est sorti dans la rue, mais pas de dégats.
Lucknow - Initially the bed started shaking n then the floor n the walls started shaking. The tremors were felt for around 2 min. After shock were felt about 25 min later for around 20 sec.
cuttack odisha - very light shaking not enough to destroy anything.
Delhi - Bed and laptop shaking...
durgapur - I felt my bed shaking like a rocking chair. The tremors were so powerful that I clearly viewed my Almirah making noise.
On standing on the floor to get out to a free space gave me a brain wobbling sensation.
rudrapur - haldwani - shaking for 40 secs , again started after 30 Min. aftershock for 10 sec
AHMEDABAD - ALL OFFICE STAFF RAN OUT OF BUILDING
Delhi - No damage
Bareilly - I was in mg class. Sitting on the front bench. Suddenly fely uneasy and felt the bench was shaking with very low frequency. But no one else was aware of it.
ahmedabad - our grind mill shaked and water fell from our neighbours house
GUWAHATI - I was in Doctors Chamber I felt the table is unsteady and as I saw outside window I felt whole building shaking. The Ceiling fans and shaking lightly. for 20 seconds I felt it..
Greater Noida - The most peculiar aspect of this earthquake was its duration in addition to the intensity. The after shock after about half an hour was also quite strong. It was quite frightening as all the hangings like fans, wind chimes and lights were moving side ways. It was the strongest in my live memory.
allahabad - about 11:45 ,it was felt that the surface was shaking badly and vibrating also ,the second shock also felt at 12:20 which was of moderate magnitude
I think it would again happen today,no damage heard yet.
Muzaffarpur - no property damage.tremors felt repeatedly for 3 hours in intervals
raxaul - 1st time in life felt such a threatning experience
meerut - i felt it for more than 30 sec.at first and a somewhat less in magnitude at second time.its causing me a headache upto 2 hrs.i made members evacuate the gym which is at 3rd floor.it was fourth occasion in my life to feel it,but it was strongest.
Ahmedabad - Very weak shaking, no damage at all
Kanpur - Was sleeping,sofa started shaking,very scary my hubby was not with me my sisters in law stated crying then we move to d parking lakad mandi n now we r still here n water is distributed to every1,crowd is seen everywhere n cannot see the roads
patna - I was in my hostel and cooking maggie in my room suddenly my chair started shaking my bed also started shaking. i came outside and saw buildings and towers were shaking.
Hooghly - I was at school then (11.50). Our Benches were shaking and we came in the ground from 1st floor and all teachers and students came out. then the water was shaking.
After sometimes at 12.14 our fans and benches were shaking again.
hyderabad - Didnt feel but my friends told
sirsa - Everyone was astonished dat wats happening every one threw their work n came outside n it took ladies to come out by dat tym it wz ol over
Noida - Strong vibrations could be felt...gates and all furnitures were vibrating...overall a horrifying experience
Jamshedpur - No property is damaged only we felt shaking.
Serampore - shaking like one ina boat.My appartment is 4 storeyed and I was in the 4th floor.Just the building started shaking from one part to onother.Aftershoch was also too strong to feel.
U.P Lucknow - I was inside in my classroom in Greenland public school my table and chair are vibrating very much. After 1second my sports sir has said in shouting that move from classrooms. And we run very fast.
jamshedpur - Thank God We the people of jamshedpur are safe.
VADODARA - DIZZINESS........
Varanassi - light vibration in the room on Ganga.
phulbagan,Kolkata - The term our was scary
Vidyanagar Govt. PTTI, Burdwan, kalitala - I am reading books, suddenly a normal shake happend at the first floor of the Hostel and all the hosteler are take down. No damage
Kolkata - I was studying when I suddenly saw the water inside my bottle ripple....it was also difficult to walk steadily at the 3rd floor of my house. Altogether a terrifying experience!
Lucknow - No damage but strong shaking last for 1 - 2 min. around 11:45 am and also felt a strong aftershock around 12: 15 pm
Kolkata - At that time, I was lying on the bed and reading book in the house. For 2 minutes, I felt the bed was shaking a little bit. After 1 minute I got down and observed the bed. Then I felt my head spinning, as though felt like falling over. Later the things were normal. At the same time my mother-in-law also felt things shaking a little bit. Later we saw TV news where we heard there was earthquake in Nepal, Kolkata too. Then we came to know that what's happened in the house was due to earthquake.
Imphal - Shacking well with 2-3 minutes , movement of staying cars and bikes can be seen!
kolkata - I was busy chopping vegetable. Suddenly felt strong giddiness. Moment later, water from over-head water tank started spilling out. People started coming out of their house. The feeling lasted for quite some time.
Kanpur - My appartment is on the 8th floor and it felt like the building swung to and fro for a few seconds and then it started shaking for the next 20 Seconds. No damage to property or life but the experience was damn scary.
Kanpur - Since we were already outside in the park after the first quake, the effect of this one was less. I could still feel the tremors beneath my feet as it lasted for less than 10 seconds
Meerut - I was in my school and was studying on 4 th floor suddenly I felt that my desk and chair is moving I screamed whole school shouted then 1 of a teacher of our school ordered us to go in the ground whole school gathered including all students and teachers.
Utraula - I was sitting in bed It was shaking for 20 seconds.
Mumbai - I felt it!
Allahabad - I was having tea in my Office around 11:56am & suddenly I felt my Office floor was shaking.. we ran outside immediately.
KAKINADA - I HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCED SINCE 11.55 AM IST , AFTER THAT I SEARCHED THE LATEST NEWS THEN I GOT CLEAR INFORMATION THAT NEPAL EXPERINCED EARTHQUAKE WHICH WAS 7.9 , MASSIVE DESTRUCTION TILL NOW 1000 PERSON GOT DEATH.
Gwalior (m.p) - Around 11.45 am my bed start vibrating..for 30 SEC approx
SURAT - I felt my head spinning and I experienced such feeling on 26/01/2001 at the time of Kutchh Earthquake in Gujarat. This time I observed ceiling fan and water tumbler on my table but could not detect shaking. All the same , very mild effect here in Surat, Gujarat ( India)
banda - I was sitting in my bed... Suddenly Maine dekha k bed Thoda hil rha tha n Mai khada hua n bahar cooler k paani ko dekha to paani kafi tezi se hil rha tha....
Waise Banda city me Koyi nuksaan ni hua h..
Lucknow - When i was working on laptop then i felt that table was shaking and we all went out of the house. I was in very much fear because it came second time also.
лакхнау - дома сидела на стуле,вдруг стало трясти как будто лёгкое покачивание , ваза стоявшая в углу стала покачиваться. После всё семьёй выбежали наружу
Kanpur Nagar - We were studying in school. I felt that the earth is shaking.. I told my teacher about this... He asked all of us to go outside in the ground...... and after half an hour we were left from school...
Allahabad - Felt the tremor for quite some time... 30-40 sec or so... Feel very bad for Nepal people who are suffering so much ... Wish could do something for them ...
sikar - I was watching movie on laptop and my whole chair shook, first I thought that my mobile is vibrating but soon realise that it's tremor.
Kanpur - I m in My Class.
The Teacher Said Me That Manas , Did U Feel Earth quake.
I said Yes Mam .
the Another Teacher Come Nd Say.
all The boy And Girls Get Out From School..............
And We Go Outside fastly.
..
ooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.....
lucknow - It was so dangerous feeling like jerk..
sikkim - We didnt hav any damage but flat cracked n m afraid again tht it wont damge my flat...
siliguri - A part of the building in our neighbourhood collapsed.
LUCKNOW - Lights and Fans started shaking , mpnitors were also shaking , we all rushed to emergency stairs , outside few bikes were also shaking .
Allahabad - Josheca Mukerji -- Felt the tremor around 11:45 for 40 sec or more... It was my 1st experience but not a likable one... Feel extremely bad for the Nepal sufferers ... Wish could do something for them ... But, we're praying for them... Prayers can be very useful... I hope everybody is praying for them...
gorakhpur - it looks like dancing land
Allahabad - Josheca Mukerji -- Felt the tremor around 11:45 for 40 sec or more... It was my 1st experience but not a likable one... Feel extremely bad for the Nepal sufferers ... Wish could do something for them ... But, we're praying for them... Prayers can be very useful... I hope everybody is praying for them...
basti - i was in my room felt tremble and noice then i came out and see electric pole , tremble , every thing ,,,,, bt sitttilll people feeeel on panic....can't expresss how we did feeeeel..
farakka - its a awesome experience
Garib nagar - Around 8:30 pm I was sitting in bed it started vibrating for 5 seconds again I was shocked.
Varanasi - This was very horrifying moment for us.. we were at 5th floor in Shiva Complex opposite Kuber Complex at Rathyatra crossing.... everything was shaking and everyone ran out of the building through stairs... Lift was not working..... overall it was a very terrified moment for everyone...Some Apartment building and home has got severe cracks.. no death casualties!!
Varanasi - Bed was shaking.
bihar - We ran outside and watched that buildings and bikes were shaking it was around 12o clock no damage done but still afraid of another one.
Patna - no object was damaged
gonda - My shocked experience
Allahabad - NAINI: no damage of property.. but house was shaking and windows too for at least 40 seconds.
kolkata - We were on the 2nd floor of a building . Felt a pretty strong tremor at around 11.45 am . Ceiling fans started shaking and the floor also started vibrating . Evacuated the building immediately . It lasted for several seconds .
There was a second quake at around 12.15 pm .
Praying for everybody in Nepal and other affected areas.
Kolkata - I was at 05th Floor. Suddenly felt shaking vertically and it was strong in Nature. Walked down through stairs
city - I felt my chair was shaking and then headache thereafter saw the trees shaking a lot
Allahabad - When me and sit my chair in my room and my brother taking rest on bed and that time shaking bed and table and chairs and full room after then we come out room and saw that all people in town come out home
kolkata - i m siting on bed and i m fell my bed is shakeing and i m also then r hole people are out of the bulidin and pray to god
varanasi - i was in my hostel working in my laptop, suddenly i feel the vibrations, all the boys came out from their room and start the making noise. i was one of them.
Basti - First shock send tremors throughout the city, buildings were swinging, since then 9 Aftershocks felt
gonda - I was watching tv suddenly my bed was shaking then i saw my tv and fridge shaking then i ran away from my house. too much destroyed. but modi gov.didnt help. me
rampur - was in class.. c block shook like dazzle.. imran btech 1 year shouted and ran away
sikkim - I was giving my exam..which fortunately got cancelled...lol...the whole compound of SMIT was shaking for near about 5 minutes...thankfully we all are well...and i hope no further earthquakes occurs...Praying for the people in Nepal...God Bless...
Gaya - I've seen many stopped cars move by itself at the time of first tremor.
Banda - hi my name is shahbaz,i was sleeping at the time suddenly my bed started vaibrating and when i came out of the room i saw the glasses of the showcase are shaking i thought that someone is pushing my bed den i woke up i have seen no one near den again i felt down on der bed n it was continiously going on den my mum told me du u feel some thing tha bed is vaibrating then we understood tha it was an earth quake.and one of the wall of my house got crack seriously.. (Robby)
Azamgarh - I was watching news on tv, suddenly everything started shaking and we heard people screaming. We ran out of home and stood there for an hour. Its 2 AM in morning but trauma of quake is not letting us sleep. God help people of Nepal.
new delhi - light shaking, movemente of lamps and very little movemente of things. Nothing happen but we are very far from nepal.
Bhubaneswar - No we thanks god not to put such a disaster. At that movement we are socked and did not take decision what to do.It is horrible and also too penetrate time. So lastly i pray god to save others from such painful disaster.
delhi - i was lying on the bed and playing game with mobile.
certainly i felt some movements,i got alert and look at kitchen, i saw water in bottle is moving like wave,i knew that its was earth quake, i grep purse n mobile, run out, after 5 min i came, back again felt shaking, then i run out for open space.
Arunachal Pradesh - almost no shaking
Bhopal - I felt my feets trembling and than I found my bed shaking but nobody was there and suddenly my mobile beeps has a message earthquake ? than I realize it
new delhi - The exact time is 11:44:30AM till 11:46:30AM last for almost two minutes
patna - 20 min ago i felt it was shaking .(Aftershock) may be.
Amity - I was sitting on the couch when I felt a very light wave movement. There was a 5 second pause, then I felt another wave. It was about 5:30pm April 19, 2015
Ghoom ,Darjeeling - The top floors of the two of the high buildings in main town Darjeeling Bazar is touching each other.
delhi - table and computers started shaking ,for 1 minute but then evreything settled down
delhi - no damages to property, but the shaking lasted for 45-50 seconds and was followed by another one after 20-25 minutes.
new delhi - Longer duration than usual for this area
Mumbai - Very mild tremors. Water in glass was shaking
Delhi - Enough to shake the bed considerably and seemed to go on for almost a minute or so. No property damage seen so far.
cuttqck - Just the bed shook. No damage
Bhubaneswar - It was shaking for several seconds but no damage done
Calcutta - Beds were shacking mildly and tables too.
Alwar - No Damage,
kanpur - Thank god
Kolkata - We felt it, then after sometime once again
lucknow - Felt twice with weak shaking for about 5 sec each time. Chair tables and window panes shaking. Building evacuated
gwalior - i saw my televison i.e. automatically vibrate. There is too dangerous.
Gurgaon - felt while working, table and chair started shaking
Kolkata - I have never faced such an experience regarding earthquake. I was working in office, in 5th floor, suddenly felt a huge shake in my chair. Firstly I thought it might be due to sudden roundrobin occuring in myself. But suddenly felt that it's going on. I lifted myself and found the chair is constantly shaking too much. Felt too much headache and ran out of building. Found some hair cracks in the glasses of 5th floor.
UP - I was sitting in my class room,suddenly at 11:45 the benches started to shaking,the process were continued about 5minutes
Guwahati - It was horrific indeed as we felt the tremors for 1 min approx shaking the building and high tension power lines clearly visible swinging.
Bareilly - My office chair is shaking very strong i feel like someone shaking my chair with hands it is a very bad experience.No damage but strong shaking.
jabalpur - It shakes me n my neighbour on d bed around 11:50am
Kolkata - Was brushing and suddenly felt my head spinning but later I realised that the water of the pond in front of my house was shaking.
bareilly - the whole room was shaking ... it was very scary moment
Noida - Felt Twice within 30 mins. Strong shaking but no casualties
New Delhi - I was asleep and the shaking woke me up
coochbehar - fans, tables, and tv shaking ..
Gurgaon - Felt shaking at 2nd floor for a longer period ~ 2 mins
Ludhiana - Nothing Fell...!!!
bhopal - Chair , Water in glass, Computers & maximum of our office staff were slightly shaking due to earthquake when we were working at 6th floor in office.
Memari - It was prolonged . There was a aftershock after 20 minutes or so
VADODARA - I felt shaking , no damages
Bhadohi,Gopiganj - I am zee,i was sitting on the bed and taking a sip of tea between 12 and 12;30 pm suddenly the bed was started to vibrate i felt that it was earthquake and told to mom that get outside simultaneously to all family member...
patna - mai apni classmet ko dekh raha tha eartquick aya mai uske uper girne wala tha tabhi eartqick ruk gaya ........
shimla - window & bed was shaking..//
Jaipur - Felt light shaking
Ahmedabad - we felt the shaking on 8th floor at our office . It was stronh enough to make us run and come out. All the staff of every office of that building rush to the stairs. It was remarkable experience.
lucknow - bad
ghaziabad - i was worshipping meanwhile i started to shake as if someone is pushing me or as i m dizzing ...never seen this much lage shaking in life it was a pretty adventurous and fearing experience
assam - while i was teaching in the classroom i had feel sudden spining my head and chair and TLM on the table are shaking. its 6+
patna - First of all I saw my fan hanging from the roof it is just simple shaking but after some few second it is shaking like the pin of the wall watch .it's my second feeling of my life. It's amazing for me.
varanasi - I was doing my work and suddenly felt vibration I thought some one is moving my bed but after few seconds it increase its level and I felt that its an earthquake I had first experience of earthquake it was better than I taught
bareilly - http://bit.ly/1GtGzHo
allahabad - we have also felt the storm today in allahabad, it made us feel shake for a minut, and we rushed out from our houses to the out side...... Ashutosh Srivastava
AHMEDABAD - WAS WORKING ON MY COMPUTER, WHEN I FELT VIBRATION. IT CONTINUED, THEN I REALISED THAT IT IS AN EARTHQUAKE, THOUGH MODERATE. EVERYONE CAME DOWN OF THE BUILDING JUST FOR THE SHAKE OF SAFETY.
WISHES FOR SAFETY OF EVERYBODY
Kolkata - My office is in Commerce house 5th floor. We all felt this earthquake, all the ceiling fans were swinging. People from all the offices in commerce ran through staircase to the outside area. After effects was very strong.
gonda - oh my god ....when earthquake came i was lying on my bed nd my bed was shaking so hardly i was really scolded ......i went outside from my house nd i will come back to my house after earthquake..
Delhi - Not felt outdoors (1st tremor), mild tremors on the 2nd floor building where my office is for about 20 seconds (2nd tremor)
V V NAGAR,ANAND GUJARAT - RACK OF FILES STARTED SHAKING FOR FEW SECONDS. LUCKILY NO DAMAGE IN OUR AREA HAS BEEN REPORTED.
allahabad - we felt the shakings of earthquake today in rambagh allahabad..........
baruipara,hooghly,westbengal - I was gaming vigoursly and within a second my chair in which I was sitting started ganing motion.with the power of my small brain(I am only 16 now) I turned of the main fuse of our house and came out of my room. Though no body got hurt or any property was destroyed
Agartala - i saw the fan shaking and some tremble.
sonepur/bharpura - I went to hajipur, so all person are feel and strong shaking.but no loss any.
bhagalpur Bihar - fee earthquake 2 times 1st was at 11:43 of 40 to 50 sec and 2nd was of 12:15 of 10 to 20 sec
laxminagar newdelhi - i was in the home & felt moving strongly I didn't knew it was earth quake thought it was due to headache but when I check the doors it was also moving & checked out & confirmed it was earthquake
after some time there was again shaking.
Ahmedabad - We were in the office @ 9th floor of the building when I experienced dizziness but by the time of few seconds came to know that it was earthquake and we all ran out of the building. This was experienced two times. Was little bit in shock but thank god there was no damages.
Siliguri - Extremely strong shaking but unlike the last major quake, it was gentler. I was at City centre inox at 4th floor and the whole building was shaking like hell. Lots of cracks observed. False ceiling fell down inside the cinema hall.
Patna - Felt very strong shocks. Even the aftershocks at 12.15 IST was very strong and along with it rain too started. All the vehicles in the parking were shaking. Not so much of damaged reported in the city.
Krishnanagar nadia west Bengal - Chairs in office were shaking, it was felt for almost 30 seconds.
new delhi - We felt everything shaking in our building. bulding was evacuated immidiately. and second time again there were shocks..and again the building was evacuated
Kolkata - My sister and I was sitting on the bed and we were moving for a long time.No property was damaged.
Allahabad - it was only for19sec everyone in the village came out from to make themselves safe there a Strom from last night and it still continue till now
Jhansi - Bhaago
meerut - In between the seminar going in my college we all feel violent shaking of chairs mikes and floor.and we were on the 6th floor dat time so then all ran away frm there and scrambled on the stairs to escape lives
Damn..fucking shaking ever experienced.but no damage there.
nautanwa - So danger i just feeling so happning and i will inforn all worker to escape the building and go ahed for make us safty
Pantnagar golegate - Hello my name is aditya manu I was sitting in my room suddenly my chair started shaking my bed also started shaking
bagdogra - Like im in swinging..inside building
Gangtok, Sikkim - Massive tremor- No damage though minor cracks on the wall.
bolpur santiniketan - Very bad experienc
noida - i was sit my class and suddenly strong shaking earthquake of 10-15 min became vibrating compann today 25-04-2015
Dehradun - No damage seen. Traffic halted temporarily. Felt 2 separate aftershocks.
Mirzapur - I am sitting in a chair.The chair is shaking
SHAHDOL - Cars, motor cycles parked on the parking lot were started shaking around 11:40 am. It lasted for approximately 25 seconds. Everyone came outside as glass on the windows brakes. This earthquake gave us goosebumps and it's both magnificent and horrible experience to witness a live earthquake.
Noida - No damage, but enough to send people outdoors into open areas.
kolkata - Strong tremor enough for disequilibrium & vertigo for 2 mins continuously.some cracks seen in walls.second shock after 30 mins & that was for 15 secs.
Delhi - Nothing had been damaged, as the epicentre of the Earthquake was in Nepal.
Visakhapatnam - Everything was shaking. I felt it very less but in many parts of vizag where my friends live they have experienced the worst
Bahraich - shocking
cuttack - strong feel of earthquake around 20 seconds in cuttack
jabalpur - i was scared
kanpur - Whole body was shaking. Windows, doors, crockery rattling a bit.. Vibrations on floor and felt like whole room was trembling.. No damage caused though.
delhi - bed tv fans everthing was shaking. even the raillinga on the stairs were shaking
allahabad - First time in my life i ever experienced it. I was eating my breakfast about 11 am and the land started shaking.
lucknow - i was in school and i felt an earthquake an we rushed out
thre is no damage
Siliguri - It was shaking buildings and trees like they are made of jelly many bulduing were damaged by internaly.Some casualties and leaving many injured.
Kolkata - At that time i was sitting in my chair at my office , suddenly my chair was shaken,i was shivering, my computer was shaken, i feel a breathing problem, i was trying to go outside, nobody was there, in the mean time, all things become quite. Then i heard from my sister it was earth quack.
patna - i was in the wash roomwhen everything started shaking..
i panicked..and ws si much scared that i ran outside my house seminude and even threw my cellpone in the washroom..2hours passed and i am still frightened cz i ahve felt after shakes a bit..
Lucknow - chakkar aake fir gaí ½í¸·í ½í¸µí ½í¸í ½í¸
jaipur - first i thought i m dizzy but then i saw my water jug and the water in the jug was shaking i knew it was an earthquake....i told all my friends and ran down in an open place....but the shake was not that much
jamshedpur - I was sitting on the bed with my laptop when I suddenly felt the bed shaking. I felt tremors through my body twice just like giddiness.The tremors were strong
AZAMGARH - JUST WE HAVE FELT THAT ALL FAN AND BUILDING'S PART ARE SHAKING AND WE RAN OUT.THERE IS INJURIES......
lucknow - Was in school when first shock struct us.Whole of the building of G.D. Goenka Public schoolstarted shaking. Emergency evacuation of all the students was done. Was very thrilling and scary.
-Aditya Shaurya
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh - First shock was heavy and it lasted around a minute.
Bhubaneswar - Bhubaneswar - We felt the shake for more than 30 seconds. We were in Library and vibration was clearly felt in the reading table. Thank god, no damage is done.
Varanasi - Strong vibrations could be felt...gates and all furnitures were vibrating...weird voice could be heard due to the vibration...overall a horrifying experience
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