§Week2:尼泊爾大地震

 

Dozens dead after another major earthquake centered in Nepal.

Latest developments

• At least 65 people have died in Nepal from Tuesday's magnitude(大小)-7.3 earthquake there, the Nepali government said Wednesday. The number of people injured now stands at 1,926, said Nepali Home Ministry spokesman(發言人) Laxmi Prasad Dhakal.

• At least 17 people in India have also died as a result of the tremor(震；震動), Indian Home Ministry spokesman Kuldeep Dhatwalia told CNN. A woman in Tibet, a region of China, was killed by falling rocks, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

• A U.S. military helicopter was declared missing Tuesday while in Nepal to support earthquake relief efforts there, officials said. The UH-1 Huey helicopter had six U.S. Marines and two Nepalis aboard at the time, the Pentagon said.

• Aftershocks(餘震) continued predawn(黎明前) Wednesday in Nepal. A CNN team there felt one such big one at 2 a.m. local time that shook buildings and terrified survivors, many of whom were sleeping outside or ran from their homes.

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Just over two weeks after thousands died in a mammoth earthquake, Nepal got hit hard again Tuesday by another powerful tremor that has left dozens more dead, more than 1,000 injured and questions about what's next for the already traumatized Asian nation.

Tuesday's disaster piled(堆積) fresh horror on Nepalis still picking up the pieces from last month's quake and its legion of aftershocks. More buildings collapsed, more landslides rumbled(轟隆隆) and people once again scrambled for their lives.

3 house collasped near newbuspark. Army and police in rescue. 2 vehicles damaged. 

"For the first seconds, it was complete silence. By the fifth second, everybody started to scream," said Marc Sarrado, a 41-year-old documentarian(紀錄片) from Spain who was in Nepal's Nuwakot Valley, about two hours northwest of Kathmandu, when the quake hit.

"It was really, really intense(激烈). Even when the shaking stopped, people were still screaming. They were completely panicked, because they knew exactly what it was."

Was impressive to hear the screaming of all the people in Chauti valey Nuwakot. The Earth has been shaking again in Nepal. 

Tuesday's magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck about 9.3 miles (15 kilometers) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said. In comparison, the magnitude-7.8 quake on April 25 -- which killed more than 8,000 people -- was centered to the northwest, rather than to the east, of Kathmandu and a little farther away (48 miles rather than 47 miles). Although at a similar depth, that earlier tremor was more than three times bigger and 5.6 times stronger, in terms of energy released, according to the USGS.

Tuesday's quake was weaker but still deadly.

Nepali Home Ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said Wednesday morning that at least 65 people in his country had been killed. The number of injured stood at 1,926, he said. Dozens of people were rescued alive from rubble, according to officials.

The carnage(大屠殺) wasn't confined(受限) to Nepal. China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported that a woman in Tibet died Tuesday afternoon after falling rocks hit the car she was in. At least 17 people were killed in northeastern India, according to Indian Home Ministry spokesman Kuldeep Dhatwalia.India's military was also involved inside Nepal, caring for casualties(傷亡) and flying them by helicopter from the village of Mrigu to Kathmandu.

This latest quake only adds to the stress for residents of a region who had been trying to return to normalcy(常態), until Mother Nature reasserted(重申) her destructive(破壞的) power.

It was "like the whole Earth was alive," said Asim Rai, after huddling(壅擠) with his family in Kathmandu.

Structure of the Lead

Who: Nepal People

When:2015/4/25 11:56

What: A horrible earthquake hit Nepal and there were a lot of people died.

Why: The Magnitude-7.3 Earthquake

Where: Nepal

How: not given

 Key Words:

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tremor(震；震動)

aftershocks(餘震)

predawn (黎明前)

documentarian(紀錄片)

carnage(大屠殺)

confined(受限)

casualties(傷亡)

huddling(壅擠)

normalcy(常態)