Nepal earthquake 2015 case study ppt

At 11.26 on Saturday 25th of April 2015 a magnitude 7.9 struck Nepal. The focus was only eight kilometres deep and the epicentre was just 60 kilometres north-west from the capital Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal.

Causes. On 25 April 2015 a 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal in Asia. The earthquake occurred on a convergent collision plate boundary between the Indian and Eurasian plates. The focus was only eight kilometres deep and the epicentre was just 60 kilometres north-west from the capital Kathmandu. The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, ...

When and Where  The earthquake occurred on 25 April 2015 at 11:56 a.m. at a depth of approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) (which is considered shallow and damaging), with its epicentre approximately 34 km (21 mi) east-southeast of Lamjung, Nepal, lasting approximately twenty seconds.  The second earthquake was somewhat less powerful at 6.6 Mw.

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