25th April 2015 Earthquake in Nepal

On Saturday morning of April 25, 2015, The terrible earthquake happened as the Kathmandu the main city was in the midst of a silent as the day was off,   

I sat in my lounge sofa along with families having finished the morning paper, and turned on the TV to see if the world out there was still intact. I was still in my pajamas, as on Saturdays I have given myself permission to do nothing I don't wish to do. Nothing unusual on the news channel. Suddenly I felt a sharp jolt. At the beginning, I didn’t think it an earthquake because, I just thought it must be something wrong, but  I knew I was wrong when my sister shouted “Earthquake!” Then all of us walk into the room waiting for the shaking to stop. I saw that the TV set the bed along with that was moving, the pictures of my family. the walls and tables suddenly began shaking, windows started popping out of their frames, and the lights flickered out I waited, but none fell. I felt no particular fear, but, as always, the thought came into my head, "Is this the BIG one?"

We hurriedly went out from the room,

We all sat outside when the movement started. The floor just seemed to ripple again. We ran towards the garden the shaking stairs to the main level. When the shaking started, people from our neighbors' started rushing to get outside.. During that time I was totally blank and murmuring to pray for the stop of the shaking. Fortunately, the shaking stopped after about 1 minutes. I have felt several earthquakes since, but this was my first and strongest, and the happenings of that day remain quite clear in my memory.

I still found it hard to believe that an earthquake would hit Nepal because according to my geographic knowledge, Nepal was seldom stricken by such disaster. However, the earthquake was a truth and I felt it so strongly. I felt so lucky for my safety and my families in such a devastating earthquake. But many people dead in Nepal, the epicenter, were not as lucky as us. The earthquake happened while many people's were at homes and most of them were in cinema's halls, apartments, small villages as they had no time to escape before the houses torn down, many of them were buried in the ruins. Not only children but also many adults died right away when the earthquake destroyed their buildings and more people were injured and failed to contact their families, relatives, and friends. Besides, many more people had to leave their homes because the earthquake knocked their homes down.. However, there was something we should be glad of. For examples, emergency workers and rescue teams gave first aid to search for survivors and in the third day of earthquake Bhutan a foreigner country  Prime minister  TsheringTobgay came to visit the devastated areas and comforted the people at the first time, rather  than our politicians who didn’t think of the Nepalese ultimate demise and plonk like a handicapped.

It seemed like a long time before the movement stopped, but the official time was one or two minutes, I believe. I wondered where the epicenter was. Close, I thought. It was almost an hour before the news hit the media. It was a 7.9 quake, later downgraded to the epicenter was in Gorkha, Nepal a hill town and district from which the Kingdom of Nepal expanded.

The region had been experiencing from a large earthquake that had struck a year ago of 6.8 rectors of magnitudes earlier, but this one was different. In a span of minutes, the entire city center was devastated, including the house, building's apartments, which was eventually demolished. Nearly 8000 people across the city died. We were overwhelmed by the devastation in our area, but I will never forget the helplessness we felt when the earthquake felt in our country Nepal.

After the 7.9 earthquakes in Nepal, and millions and millions of people dead, millions of millions of rupees worth of damage here, a lot of people were not only surprised, they were also ill-prepared.   All human beings, regardless of where we live, could travel to a place where an earthquake is occurring. Most of us know and accept that many of the earthquakes in the world occur along or near the "Ring of Fire"The fact is, that there are many more faults in the Earth than most people know about. There are potentials for quakes in many places, and how well you would survive, largely depends on where you are and what you are doing when they occur. Your life and the lives of your party could depend upon general knowledge of earthquakes.

And now we just sit around waiting for the aftershocks (there was already at least 4.8 and more quakes with the different origin, although it wasn't as obvious as the 7.9 to subside. The totally freaky event, though.

On a lighter note, I thought that a good way to share our experience of the earthquake would be to share my answers to the Did You Feel It?questionnaire on the USGS site. I really like that site because the computers that are monitoring the seismographs post information (like location and magnitude) about the Earthquake immediately, so you don't have to wait for news outlets to find the information and write a story. I also like how they have a map of the intensity ratings that the internet survey gives them. For a quake like this, they can have several hundred thousand surveys filled out, submitted and analyzed within hours of the event. Each survey also has a space for personal stories that can be read later. I think this is a FABULOUS way to get scientific data from the people directly affected immediately after an event happens when the experience is most clear in their minds. I wonder if there's a way to take this model and apply it to other events like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, rock concerts.

So there we go work it out for yourself do you think that the number of earthquakes is increasing? Maybe, But think of this for a second the earth itself is a living thing and the more and more we rob the earth of its natural resources the more it will continue to show us who is boss.