Nepal quake: more than 1,000 people dead after tremor near Kathmandu | World news | The Guardian
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Nepalese police said the death toll in the Himalayan kingdom had risen to 1,130, while 34 fatalities were reported in northern India and one in Bangladesh.
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7.9 on the Richter scale
11.41 Nepal local time on Saturday
A lot of the damage and injury is because of poor building construction - which in turn is probably related to Nepal being one of the poorest countries in the world.
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Nepal suffered its worst recorded earthquake in 1934, which measured 8.0 and all but destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan, killing more than 8,500 people.
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