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1934-earthquake

Memories of the Great Earthquake

Survivors recall the terror and grief when a 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal exactly 90 years ago this week

Sonia Awale

90 years after ’90

The Great Earthquake of 1934 is known by the Nepali year it happened: Nabbe Sal

Sonia Awale

Kathmandu before 1934 earthquake

In May 2023, the descendants of amateur photographer Joseph Gaye (1852-1926) donated a collection of photographic material of his views of the...

Kathmandu’s temple restoration after 1934 quake

The 8.3M earthquake that struck at 2:28PM on 15 January 1934 was the last major quake to hit Kathmandu before the 2015 Gorkha earthquake....

Sahina Shrestha

Lessons still not learnt

Photos: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESEarthquakes are inevitable in Nepal. It is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And ‘when’ was 2:28PM on...

Sonia Awale

Rebuilding Kathmandu after the 1934 quake

The way Nepal’s Rana rulers went about rebuilding Kathmandu after the mega-earthquake on 15 January 1934 has important lessons for urban planning after 2015...

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