Extensive Damage Reported After 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Nepal

Today: 6.6 magnitude earthquake near Kathmandu, Nepal
Today: 7.9 magnitude earthquake near Bharatpur, Nepal
Today: 6.2 magnitude earthquake near Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada
Yesterday: 6.1 magnitude earthquake near Nelson, New Zealand

A seismic tremor (otherwise called a shake, tremor or temblor) is the consequence of a sudden arrival of vitality in the Earth's covering that makes seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic movement of a range alludes to the recurrence, sort and size of tremors experienced over a time of time.
Tremors are measured utilizing perceptions from seismometers. The minute size is the most well-known scale on which tremors bigger than more or less 5 are accounted for the whole globe. The a bigger number of various tremors littler than extent 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured generally on the neighborhood greatness scale, likewise alluded to as the Richter size scale. These two scales are numerically comparative over their scope of legitimacy. Size 3 or lower quakes are for the most part very nearly vague or powerless and extent 7 and over conceivably cause genuine harm over bigger territories, contingent upon their profundity. The biggest quakes in memorable times have been of greatness somewhat more than 9, albeit there is no restriction to the conceivable size. The latest substantial quake of size 9.0 or bigger was a 9.0 greatness tremor in Japan in 2011 (as of March 2014), and it was the biggest Japanese seismic tremor since records started. Power of shaking is measured on the adjusted Mercalli scale. The shallower a tremor, the more harm to structures it causes, all else being equal.[1]