By Alan Branch
Tragedy Strikes Nepal
The mountainous country of Nepal is home to one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world, notorious for the renowned Mount Everest. It was there where tragedy struck on April 25, at 11:56 NST, by an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude. It is known as the Gorkha earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people. It became the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the Bihar earthquake in 1934.
The Gorkha earthquake was accounted to have lasted barely a minute, but it was long enough to leave a devastating mark on Nepalese history.