UN, 21 May 2015 – As Nepalese communities devastated by two major earthquakes struggle to restore and rebuild, United Nations humanitarian workers and their partners are in a fierce race against time to reach survivors in the remote mountains before the monsoon rains hit and further complicate logistics.
Nepal's seismological authority said they were thinking of installing an earthquake early warning system to help alert the public immediately when a quake hits a region, allowing them to have a few more seconds to run for safety.
A Chinese seismologist called for more research into earthquake-predicting technology on Tuesday, which marks the seventh anniversary of the quake which claimed more than 80,000 lives around Sichuan's Wenchuan County in 2008.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit Nepal Tuesday, killing at least four people in eastern Nepali town and two people in neighbouring India. The latest quake came just weeks after an earlier earthquake killed more than 8,000 in the Kathmandu Valley area.
UN, 11 May 2015 – Two weeks after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, emergency responders are racing against time to reach affected populations in the mountainous country's most remote regions, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced.
Three aftershocks have occurred within 12 hours on Sunday, the 16th day since the massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal. All the three aftershocks that occurred till noon are of less than 5 magnitudes, in-between 4-5 magnitudes.
Only a fraction of the emergency funds the United Nations has
requested for victims of Nepal's earthquake have come in, UN officials
have said, as crises around the world put unprecedented demands on
international donors.
World Health Organization (WHO) played down the risks of an epidemic outbreak in Nepal on Wednesday amid widespread fears that unseasonal rain and looming monsoon may pose greater challenge to this earthquake-torn country 's fragile health system.
In addition to killing thousands of people and injuring many more, the Force 7.8 earthquake that rattled central Nepal on April 25 also shaved a couple of centimeters off the top of Mount Everest.
The United Nation's cultural agency is warning that the restoration of the cultural heritage sites damaged in Nepal's earthquake might take ten years or even decades.
Christian Manhart, the UNESCO representative to Nepal, is calling on the international community to help with the rebuilding.
Nepal's government ruled out the possibility Saturday of finding more
survivors buried in the rubble from last weekend's massive earthquake as
it announced the death toll had risen to 6,621.
There is only "a small window of time" for relief workers in Nepal to put in place measures to protect people from deadly disease outbreaks, a senior United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) official said on Saturday.
The Red Cross warned Thursday that nearly all homes had been wiped out in some towns and villages near the epicentre of Nepal's devastating earthquake.
UN, 28 April 2015 –
In response to severe devastation caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and many strong aftershocks that have hit Nepal since 25 April, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator today released $15 million through the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to enable humanitarian aid organizations to rapidly scale up operations and provide immediate assistance to people in desperate need.
Rain and snow will hit quake-affected regions in Tibet again on Tuesday, complicating the rescue work there, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast on Monday.
Following the massive destruction to world heritage monuments in Nepal after Saturdays devastating earthquake, UNESCO on Monday said they would field an international expert mission to undertake an in-depth damage assessment of the damage to heritage and path to recovery.
UN, 26 April 2015 – The United Nations relief wing said today that at least 2,200 people have died and over 5,800 are injured as a result of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday.
At least 18 mountaineers have been confirmed killed in the avalanche in Mount Qomolangma, triggered by a major earthquake on Saturday, and their nationalities are not yet clear, Nepal's Tourism Department told Xinhua on Sunday.
Bad weather frustrated efforts to rescue hundreds of climbers stranded
on Mount Everest on Sunday, a day after an earthquake in Nepal triggered
an avalanche in possibly the single deadliest incident on the world's
highest peak.
It is being reported that the death toll from the series of quakes which struck Nepal now exceeds 18-hundered.
The Nepali Home Ministry has also revealed that some 47-hundered people have been injured.
