Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Tectonic Plates Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Kevin Bubriski first visited Nepal in 1975 as a 20-year-old Peace Corps volunteer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 He worked on a project to bring drinking water to villages. He has been returning to Nepal to photograph the Nepalese people ever since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 I've been drawing, painting and photodocumenting the village of Bonhooghly since 1982, so his wonderful photos strike a powerful chord with me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 This photograph is especially haunting. It was taken in the Gorkha district between Pokhara and Kathmandu in 1985. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Haunting because precisely thirty years later, at just before noon on Saturday 25th April 2015, the district would become the epicenter of a 7.9 earthquake. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Over 8000 people would be injured. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Many buried alive in the rubble. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 The death toll would rise to over 4000. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 A thousand prayer candles would be lit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 The earthquake caused Everest's worst ever disaster, despite the fact the mountain was 200km from the epicentre. The avalanche which hit the Everest base camp killed at least 17 people and more than 60 were injured. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 “The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives." Jost Korbush, Everest Base Camp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Nearly two dozen aftershocks followed, including a magnitude 6.6 barely an hour afterwards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 A part of the Indian state of Bihar slid between one and 10 feet northwards and underneath Nepal in a matter of seconds.The tremors continued for almost two minutes and were felt across northern India, killing 50 people. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 1000 kilometers from the epicenter, the tremors felt in Kolkata were still 5.0 on the Richter scale, sufficient to send people running from high rise buildings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Kolkata lies directly on a fault line, known as the Eocene Hinge Zone. The fracture runs right through the middle of the city, at a depth of 4.5 kilometres, before passing through Bangladesh and Myanmar and, further on, to Sumatra. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Kolkata would not be able to withstand an earthquake beyond 6.0. Most of the buildings would collapse, and an estimated 200,000 people would die. Only 7 earthquakes in history have killed more people than would die here. "It’s just a matter of time” Supriya Mondol, associate professor of plate tectonics, Jadavpur University Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 24, 2015 Lucina was alone in her apartment when it began to shake. "I was terrified" she later told me. But at the time I knew nothing of this. I was on a flight returning to Manchester after my second visit to Mridula's family in as many months. As fragile as gossamer, my adoptive family... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
comicjack 17,532 posts Posted May 25, 2015 Some of those images are quite heart wrenching ,i can only imagine the pain. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 19,837 posts Posted May 25, 2015 Family Without Geography Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
