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- Central and eastern Nepal
- Ganges river plain in northern India - southern parts of the plateau of Tibet
-Western Bhutan

- Northwestern Bangladesh

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28.230°N 84.731°E

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April 25th 2015 at 11:56 am

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The effects of the Nepal earthquake were devastating, it left hundreds of thousands of people without homes, destroyed thousands of government buildings,  lefts nearly a million children without schools,  and about $6.6 billion in total damages. The earthquake also triggered two avalanches, one on Mount Everest killing 25 and another in Langtang valley with 250 people missing.

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There are multiple reasons why response teams get a bad rep when it comes to the effectiveness of their management response. Local medical teams becoming casualties as well is one reason, despite admirable degree of heroism associated with local response teams when it comes to natural disasters, sometimes they themselves become casualties of the disaster event resulting in a smaller amount of help when it comes to the response of the disaster. Another reason is that even the best equipped national level response teams have limited capacity too. The NDMS (national disaster medical system) has 55 teams spread across the united states for example, once set up they can only provide a limited amount of care, if only providing minor treatment and release of patients they are only capable of treating about 5,000 patients per day, and in the result of a natural disaster, the injured can rack up a lot above 5,000. One last reason is that most national and international medical teams arrive too late to save a majority of the lives that are lost. This is because most of the deaths that occur, occur during the disaster impact when response teams are basically impossible to deploy.

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“Why You Can't Rely on Rescue.” DisasterDoc, 4 Oct. 2016, disasterdoc.org/little-late-10-reasons-cant-rely-rescue/.

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Two large aftershocks, with magnitudes 6.6 and 6.7, shook the region within one hour of the main quake, and several dozen smaller aftershocks occurred in the region during the succeeding days. On May 12 a magnitude-7.3 aftershock struck some 76 km (47 miles) east-northeast of Kathmandu, killing more than 100 people and injuring nearly 1,900.

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The location, magnitude, and focal mechanism of the earthquake suggest that it was caused by a slip along the Main Frontal Thrust. The study also suggests that because of tectonic stress buildup, the earthquake from 1934 in Nepal and the 2015 quake are connected, following a historic earthquake pattern.

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Most current ways to warn communities about earthquakes are through public warning systems through media such as radio flashes, text messages, emails or public sirens, this gives people about   60-90 sec before it hits depending on the distance from the epicenter and effectiveness of the type of relay technology.
An automated earthquake warning alert system that would connect to, and rapidly de-activate industrial processes, machinery, and automated infrastructure is generating high interest.
Earthquake smart sensors that can be installed directly on the machinery itself and can close-down production lines and other potentially hazardous equipment when seismic vibration is detected.

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It was classified as 8.1 on the surface wave magnitude scale.

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9,000 killed
22,000 injured
3.5 million left homeless

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Maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe).