Images of devastation emerge from Nepal earthquake
A devastating earthquake rocked Nepal on Saturday, toppling historic buildings in the capital, Katmandu, fracturing highways and triggering avalanches on Mt. Everest. By evening, police had placed the...
View ArticleAvalanche triggered by Nepal quake strikes Everest base camp
He thought it was a joke. Lying down at his camp on one of the approaches to Mt. Everest, Dutch mountaineer Eric Arnold assumed that his friend was shaking the tent. A prank. But then the ground...
View ArticleFormer U. of C. student killed in Everest avalanche was on dream trip, friend...
Michelle Fennessy had been following her old friend's dream trip from afar. On Thursday, Vinh Truong shared a video from his journey in Nepal -- images of cows, punctuated with his comments about how...
View ArticleExperts long feared Nepal buildings couldn't survive big quake
The magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake the killed more than 1,100 people Saturday occurred in a seismically dangerous region with a history of catastrophic temblors made all the more destructive by weak...
View ArticleNepal reeling after powerful quake kills scores, topples buildings
The most powerful earthquake to hit Nepal in more than eight decades roared across the impoverished mountain kingdom just before noon Saturday, killing more than 1,800 people, some as far away as...
View ArticleKatmandu's poorly constructed buildings worsen quake outcome
An exploding urban population that led to taller and often poorly constructed buildings, along with an unusually hazardous combination of geological conditions, had for years prompted warnings from...
View ArticleSanta Monica couple visiting Nepal reported missing after deadly quake
It was a typical trip to Nepal for A. Michelle Page.The Santa Monica resident planned to collect portraits of dogs, cats, horses and rabbits by local artists and commission more Nepalese artwork that...
View ArticleGoogle employee killed in avalanche was 'adventure activist,' friends say
Dan Fredinburg's friends described him as superhuman. Standing 6-foot-4, the athletic adventurer scaled mountains, swam with sharks and, after conquering Mt. Everest, had plans to kite surf across...
View ArticleL.A. County firefighters deployed to Nepal to aid in search and rescue
A team of 57 Los Angeles County firefighters will be deployed to Nepal to aid in search and rescue efforts after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Nepal. The highly trained crew was...
View ArticleSanta Monica-based filmmaker among thousands killed in Nepal
Friends and family on Sunday mourned the Santa Monica-based filmmaker who was among the thousands killed in the massive earthquake that struck Nepal. Tom Taplin, 61, was filming a documentary about...
View ArticleNepal earthquake death toll tops 3,700
Terrifying aftershocks continued to roil Nepal on Sunday, sending people screaming into the driving rain and complicating efforts to rescue survivors after a massive earthquake killed more than 3,700...
View ArticleAid agencies launch global relief effort for Nepal earthquake
The massive earthquake in Nepal and its frightening aftershocks have unleashed another force almost as overwhelming: an international relief effort that already is involving governments, charity...
View ArticleAfter Nepal earthquake, chaos at Katmandu airport: 'From Paradise to Hell'
Under a yellow moon that hung like a wedge of lemon in the sky, Ole Andersen was camped at 3 a.m. Monday out front of Katmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport with a green notebook, writing a story...
View ArticleNepal-size earthquake in California could kill 1,800, study found
Both Nepal and California sit at the intersections of huge pieces of the Earth's crust. For Nepal, it is the Indian tectonic plate pushing into the Eurasian plate. For California, it is the Pacific...
View ArticleNepal quake: Tent city springs to life in Katmandu, transforming park
Sony Tamand was helping her aunt run her popular general store on Saturday afternoon when everything began to shake. "I felt the ground moving from side to side and I just ran out of the store and...
View ArticleNepal's government ill-equipped to handle earthquake disaster
As the death toll from Nepal's massive earthquake passed 4,200 on Monday, it was not just drinking water, hospital beds, gasoline, electricity and sanitary facilities that were in short supply.Hope in...
View ArticleAncient temples, key to Nepal tourism, suffer severe quake damage
The gates of Dharahara, an ancient nine-story tower overlooking the city skyline, were locked Monday, its ticket booth shuttered. Yet hundreds of residents clambered over its low walls to climb the...
View ArticleAfter Nepal quake, river burns with Hindu funeral pyres almost around the clock
The family of Usha Shrestha gathered along the banks of the Bagmati River on Monday to bear her body down to the funeral pyres. They carried her on a stretcher fashioned from green bamboo, her body...
View ArticleNepal earthquake: Helping survivors
Aid groups are rushing to get crucial supplies to survivors of Nepal's devastating earthquake, which has killed more than 4,000 people. Here is a look at some of the many humanitarian efforts underway...
View Article'Unimaginable': Doctors overwhelmed at Nepalese trauma center
Ronisa Tamang blinks her purple, swollen eyes at the request of a doctor, and is able to lift her left hand in a weak motion, but not her right. She breathes in erratic, shaky bursts. A team of...
View ArticleNepal mountain village is spared death but not destruction in quake
In many ways, Sanjay Silwal is a fortunate man. The 300 people of his mountaintop village - including his parents, wife, infant son and 6-year-old daughter - escaped Saturday's earthquake with nary a...
View ArticleMany still missing as toll for Nepal's earthquake tops 5,000
With the death toll from Nepal's massive earthquake topping 5,000 on Tuesday, police, soldiers and a Chinese rescue team searched for signs of another body as construction equipment dug deep into the...
View ArticlePatience wears thin in rural Nepal, where quake aid is slow to arrive
It has been five days since Prabina Shrastha's house collapsed on top of her best friend and her best friend's toddler son, and no one has cleared the rubble to account for the bodies that undoubtedly...
View ArticleNepal businesses, people out of work after quake wonder what's next
For 18 years, he toiled in other people's eateries, venturing as far as Bahrain to work as a restaurant manager and saving up $50,000 to start his own establishment. Finally, four years ago, Pradip...
View ArticleHope of finding more Nepal quake survivors fades as toll tops 5,500
Hope of finding survivors in rubble was fading fast Wednesday as the death toll from last weekend's earthquake in Nepal surpassed 5,500. But after days of complaints about the shortage of aid, a...
View ArticleTwo rescues offer hope as Nepal earthquake death toll tops 5,800
A rare jolt of good news brought cheer to earthquake survivors Thursday, even as aftershocks continued to rattle nerves and the government said the death toll had exceeded 5,800 in Nepal alone. Five...
View ArticleFinding teen in Nepal earthquake rubble lifts rescue workers' spirits
Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Andrew Olvera was up early Thursday morning, scouting the streets of Nepal's capital. The burly Californian and fellow members of a disaster response team deployed by the...
View ArticleAt a Nepal school-turned-shelter, lessons in resilience in quake aftermath
More than two-dozen children gathered under a colorful tarpaulin at the Vidyarthi Niketan School here about 10 miles east of Nepal's capital, trying hard to follow along as a dance instructor guided...
View ArticleU.N. calls for more Nepal quake aid: 'So many people have lost everything'
The United Nations called Friday for further support for earthquake-hit Nepal as officials said the death toll from the 7.8 magnitude temblor had exceeded 6,200. Nearly one week since the quake, donor...
View ArticleNepal quake victims fear government won't help much, if history is guide
In August, after heavy monsoon rains triggered a landslide that obliterated this village and killed 156 people, Nepalese authorities promised to resettle the survivors and provide them financial aid...
View ArticleNepal quake: 52 bodies found in remote valley where trekkers missing
Nepali officials said Monday that 52 dead bodies have been found in a remote valley where scores of Nepali and foreign trekkers had gone missing in an avalanche following the massive April 25...
View ArticleLuck and tainted food -- a California pair's recipe for survival in Nepal
Andrew and Jennifer Maiorana might owe everything to a questionable chicken leg. Not long after consuming the vacuum-packed, blood-red leg procured from a market in northeastern Nepal, Andrew...
View ArticleIn Nepal, earthquake victims mark Buddha's birthday
Crowds filled the streets below the gold tower of the Swayambhunath temple on Monday, lighting candles at roadside stands and buying bouquets of yellow daisies and incense to offer at the altars on...
View ArticleNepal's overseas migrant workers face tough decisions after quake
The destruction on television and his family's despondent voices on the other end of the phone overpowered Shivaram Pariyar. The 31-year-old construction worker summoned the courage to approach his...
View ArticleHunting for heartbeats: NASA technology rescues 4 quake survivors in Nepal
Four men were rescued from damaged buildings in Nepal with help from NASA technology that detects people's heartbeats, officials said Friday. A radar detector known as Finder, or Finding Individuals...
View ArticleNepal sanitation efforts suffer after quake
Sanitation specialist Tess Gough arrived in this earthquake-ravaged town with an uncomfortable question to ask. "It's about toilets," she said. As in many towns and villages in Nepal, most of the...
View ArticleDelay Nepal travel, State Department urges
A State Department warning issued May 1 asks U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel to Nepal as the country continues to try to recover from the magnitude 7.8 quake on April 25. The warning...
View ArticleBusiness stirs, tents begin to come down in quake-devastated Nepal
Her name means "sweets," but Mithai Malatar let her annoyance show - just briefly - one morning last week. She was sitting cross-legged on a patch of canvas amid the toppled ruins of Katmandu's most...
View ArticleMap: Nepal earthquake and aftershocks
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Nepal 1 p.m. local time Tuesday 47 miles northeast of Katmandu, near the Chinese border. There have been nearly 100 after shocks and quakes with a magnitude of 2.5 or...
View ArticleDeath toll from Nepal aftershock at 91; troops hunt for U.S. aircraft
Authorities in Nepal on Wednesday raised the death toll from a magnitude 7.3 aftershock to 91 people as troops combed a remote district northeast of Katmandu for a U.S. military helicopter that was...
View ArticleNepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed U.S. Marine helicopter
Wreckage believed to be from a U.S. Marine helicopter missing in Nepal since Tuesday has been found, U.S. military officials said early Friday. Air Force para-rescue specialists are at the site...
View ArticleFinding salvation in the stories of Nepal's survivors
He had tried to stop his boozing but had relapsed, sneaking "10-rupee hooch." One evening in the Dhading area northwest of Katmandu, he stopped his motorcycle at a roadside cliff. Perhaps, he thought,...
View ArticleAll 8 bodies recovered from downed U.S. Marine chopper in Nepal
The wreckage of a Marine helicopter from Camp Pendleton missing in Nepal since Tuesday has been found and there are no survivors, the U.S. military said Friday. Six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers...
View ArticleIn Nepal, uncertainty, fear settle like dust following aftershock
The earth rattled yet again. It had been nearly three weeks since these temblors began to rock our lives in Nepal, one jolt at a time. Just when we thought the aftershocks of the powerful April 25...
View ArticleAfter Nepal quake, teams search for bodies — and closure for families
It had been a week and a half since the massive earthquake that killed more than 8, 300 people. The Nepali government had told international search teams to stand down. There had been no miraculous...
View ArticleHelping Nepal's children cope with 'immense trauma' of 7.8 earthquake
Amid row after row of tents in Tundikhel, an open field in the center of this earthquake-ravaged capital, is a big blue tarpaulin under which children buzz about with colorful balloons and clay....
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