Full Coverage: Massive quake hits Nepal

Amid row after row of tents in Tundikhel, an open field in the center of this earthquake-ravaged capital, is a big blue tarpaulin under which children buzz about with colorful balloons and clay.

It had been a week and a half since the massive earthquake that killed more than 8, 300 people.

The earth rattled yet again.

The wreckage of a Marine helicopter from Camp Pendleton missing in Nepal since Tuesday has been found and there are no survivors, the U.S. military said Friday.

He had tried to stop his boozing but had relapsed, sneaking “10-rupee hooch.”

Wreckage believed to be from a U.S.

Authorities in Nepal on Wednesday raised the death toll from a magnitude 7.3 aftershock to 91 people as troops combed a remote district northeast of Katmandu for a U.S. military helicopter that was missing with eight people aboard.

Her name means “sweets,” but Mithai Malatar let her annoyance show — just briefly — one morning last week.

A State Department warning issued May 1 asks U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel to Nepal as the country continues to try to recover from the magnitude 7.8 quake on April 25.

Sanitation specialist Tess Gough arrived in this earthquake-ravaged town with an uncomfortable question to ask.

Four men were rescued from damaged buildings in Nepal with help from NASA technology that detects people’s heartbeats, officials said Friday.

The destruction on television and his family’s despondent voices on the other end of the phone overpowered Shivaram Pariyar.

Andrew and Jennifer Maiorana might owe everything to a questionable chicken leg.

Crowds filled the streets below the gold tower of the Swayambhunath temple on Monday, lighting candles at roadside stands and buying bouquets of yellow daisies and incense to offer at the altars on Buddha’s birthday, a major holiday in Nepal.

In August, after heavy monsoon rains triggered a landslide that obliterated this village and killed 156 people, Nepalese authorities promised to resettle the survivors and provide them financial aid from a new relief fund.

Nepali officials said Monday that 52 dead bodies have been found in a remote valley where scores of Nepali and foreign trekkers had gone missing in an avalanche following the massive April 25 earthquake.

The United Nations called Friday for further support for earthquake-hit Nepal as officials said the death toll from the 7.8 magnitude temblor had exceeded 6,200.

More than two-dozen children gathered under a colorful tarpaulin at the Vidyarthi Niketan School here about 10 miles east of Nepal’s capital, trying hard to follow along as a dance instructor guided them through a popular Nepali song.

Los Angeles County Fire Capt.

A rare jolt of good news brought cheer to earthquake survivors Thursday, even as aftershocks continued to rattle nerves and the government said the death toll had exceeded 5,800 in Nepal alone.

For 18 years, he toiled in other people’s eateries, venturing as far as Bahrain to work as a restaurant manager and saving up $50,000 to start his own establishment.

It has been five days since Prabina Shrastha’s house collapsed on top of her best friend and her best friend’s toddler son, and no one has cleared the rubble to account for the bodies that undoubtedly lie beneath.

Hope of finding survivors in rubble was fading fast Wednesday as the death toll from last weekend’s earthquake in Nepal surpassed 5,500.

In many ways, Sanjay Silwal is a fortunate man.

Ronisa Tamang blinks her purple, swollen eyes at the request of a doctor, and is able to lift her left hand in a weak motion, but not her right.

With the death toll from Nepal’s massive earthquake topping 5,000 on Tuesday, police, soldiers and a Chinese rescue team searched for signs of another body as construction equipment dug deep into the wreckage of the Budget Hotel in Katmandu.

Michelle Fennessy had been following her old friend’s dream trip from afar.

The family of Usha Shrestha gathered along the banks of the Bagmati River on Monday to bear her body down to the funeral pyres.

The gates of Dharahara, an ancient nine-story tower overlooking the city skyline, were locked Monday, its ticket booth shuttered.

As the death toll from Nepal’s massive earthquake passed 4,200 on Monday, it was not just drinking water, hospital beds, gasoline, electricity and sanitary facilities that were in short supply.

Sony Tamand was helping her aunt run her popular general store on Saturday afternoon when everything began to shake.

Friends and family on Sunday mourned the Santa Monica-based filmmaker who was among the thousands killed in the massive earthquake that struck Nepal.

A team of 57 Los Angeles County firefighters will be deployed to Nepal to aid in search and rescue efforts after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Nepal.

Terrifying aftershocks continued to roil Nepal on Sunday, sending people screaming into the driving rain and complicating efforts to rescue survivors after a massive earthquake killed more than 3,700 people in the impoverished mountain nation and surrounding countries.

Under a yellow moon that hung like a wedge of lemon in the sky, Ole Andersen was camped at 3 a.m.

The massive earthquake in Nepal and its frightening aftershocks have unleashed another force almost as overwhelming: an international relief effort that already is involving governments, charity groups and private volunteers from all corners of the globe.

Aid groups are rushing to get crucial supplies to survivors of Nepal’s devastating earthquake, which has killed more than 4,000 people.

Dan Fredinburg’s friends described him as superhuman.

It was a typical trip to Nepal for A. Michelle Page.

An exploding urban population that led to taller and often poorly constructed buildings, along with an unusually hazardous combination of geological conditions, had for years prompted warnings from scientists that the Katmandu Valley of Nepal was a seismic time bomb waiting to go off.

Both Nepal and California sit at the intersections of huge pieces of the Earth’s crust.

He thought it was a joke. Lying down at his camp on one of the approaches to Mt.

The most powerful earthquake to hit Nepal in more than eight decades roared across the impoverished mountain kingdom just before noon Saturday, killing more than 1,800 people, some as far away as India and Bangladesh, and devastating a crowded base camp at Mt.

The magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake the killed more than 1,100 people Saturday occurred in a seismically dangerous region with a history of catastrophic temblors made all the more destructive by weak building codes.