A multinational team is trying to map landslide hazards in Nepal before the summer monsoon adds to the region’s misery.
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Using satellite radar sensors, scientists have been able to detect the rising and falling of the landscape in the Himalayas caused by the Gorkha earthquake.
Debris from an earthquake-induced landslide has dammed a river in Nepal.
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The powerful earthquake in Nepal triggered a destructive landslide that completely buried a village.
Darkness descended on much of Nepal after a powerful earthquake rattled the country’s already stressed electrical grid.
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