KATHMANDU, Oct 6: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal embarked on a visit to Bajhang today to inspect the areas affected by the recent earthquakes. He reached Bajhang on a Nepali Army helicopter and is scheduled to return to Kathmandu later this evening.

THE HAGUE, Oct 2: The Netherlands halted extraction from Europe's biggest gas field on Sunday, which was resulting in earthquakes that have shaken local residents for decades and threaten to persist.

BAITADI, March 17: Two earthquakes struck Baitadi within a span of a minute on Thursday evening. The quakes measuring 3.2 and 3.5 on the Richter scale took place at 6:25PM and at 6:26PM, respectively.

KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey, Feb 9: The death toll from earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria this week passed 15,000 on Thursday amid anger from those left destitute and frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams.

KATHMANDU, Aug 11: The reconstruction of 380 archaeological and cultural sites destroyed by the 2015 earthquakes has been completed as of Wednesday.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, June 18: The death toll from two strong earthquakes in China rose to 11 on Tuesday, with 122 people injured, state media said, adding that rescuers pulled some survivors from rubble in a part of the country that often suffers strong tremors.

KATHMANDU, May 2: Even after four years of the 2015 earthquakes, two major police offices in the capital that were damaged by the quakes are still operating under tents, awaiting the start of the reconstruction of the office buildings.

KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Bank and financial institutions (BFIs) have extended a total of Rs 2.42 billion in concessional loans to earthquake survivors to rebuild their homes destroyed in 2015 earthquakes.

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RASUWA, Dec 13: Rasuwa was one of the worst-affected districts by the devastating earthquakes of 2015 in terms of both human causalities and destruction of property. As the devastation nears its fourth year, majority of the residents have overcome their insurmountable grief and have started their life afresh by rebuilding their settlements.

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KATHMANDU, Oct 31: More than three years since the monster quake of 2015 shook the entire nation to its core, three iconic heritage sites in Kathmandu are still awaiting reconstruction.

RASUWA, Oct 15: The victims of Rasuwa displaced by the devastating earthquakes of 2015 have returned back to their village for celebrating the Dashain festival at their home at last.

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to successfully predict earthquakes, an advance that may help prepare for natural disasters and potentially save lives.

Omar Havana is a freelance photojournalist based in Cambodia. He lived in Nepal from 2014 to 2015. Omar recently published his first photography book ‘Endurance’ as a tribute to the people of Nepal after the terrible earthquakes of 2015. He presented his photography book ‘Endurance’ on March 16 to Nepal, as a part of the Kathmandu Triennial. Here in conversation with Republica’s Prasansha Rimal, Omar talks about his experience during the earthquakes and his book ‘Endurance’.

ROME,  Jan18:  A series of three strong earthquakes hit central Italy in the space of an hour Wednesday, shaking the same region that suffered a series of deadly quakes last year and has been buried under more than a meter (three feet) of snow in recent days.

KATHMANDU, Dec 28: Pipelines being laid down in the Kathmandu Valley to distribute water from Melamchi to consumers may be vulnerable to earthquakes of intensity greater than that of 2015 quakes, a report shows.

Yet another significant earthquake shook central Italy last week, adding to the two experienced only four days previously.