
At least four people have been killed by the 7.3 magnitude quake that hit Nepal on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration said.
Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the organization, told CNN that the deaths occurred in the town of Chautara, east of Kathmandu. Ref. CNN
Mounting tension in the Himalaya
In the days following the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, afterslip produced little surface evidence of continued movement. That meant only one of two things could be happening: either the part of the fault that hadn't moved was experiencing a slow-slip event, a slow-motion earthquake, or it remained completely locked, accumulating further strain in that segment of the fault. A new research paper finds it is likely the latter. Ref. Source 3w.