On April 25, 2015, Nepal was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale with epicenter located in Barpak of Gorkha district in western Nepal.
There was a significant aftershock of 7.3 magnitude on May 12 that had epicenter in Dolakha district. The temblor was centered 18 kilometers southeast of Kodari and 76 km east-northeast of the Kathmandu.
The May 12 earthquake occurred due to faulting associated with the Main Himalayan Thrust, where the India plate is slamming into the Eurasia plate to the north.
Generally, smaller aftershocks strike within the main earthquake rupture, whereas the biggest aftershocks tend to strike at the edge of where the original earthquake occurred.
Some 9,000 persons were killed, thousands got injured and hundreds of thousands of houses completely destroyed and many people were rendered homeless. Many government and public office buildings, historical, cultural and archeological heritages were destroyed in the quake.
Moreover, physical infrastructures including public and private school buildings, bridges, roads, etc. were also been destroyed in the quakes.
The government declared fourteen districts—Gorkha, Kavrepalanchok, Dhading, Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Sindupalchok, Dolakha, Ramechhap, Okhaldunga, Makwanpur, Sindhuli, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur—as severely-hit and the crisis-hit.
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