Thousands were killed in an earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday, April 25, 2015.
Pemba Tamang, 15, recovers at the Israeli field hospital for earthquake victims after being rescued in an operation led by a Nepalese team with American responders from the U.S. Agency for International Development assisting them, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Photo/Manish Swarup
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Pemba Tamang, 15, recovers at the Israeli field hospital for earthquake victims after being rescued in an operation led by a Nepalese team with American responders from the U.S. Agency for International Development assisting them, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Photo/Manish Swarup
People watch as Nepal policemen and US rescue workers prepare to pull out Pemba Tamang, a teenage boy from the rubble of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Photo/Manish Swarup
Nepalese policemen lift their commander and celebrate after they along with U.S. rescuers pulled out Pemba Tamang, a teenage boy from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo / Manish Swarup)
AP Photo / Manish Swarup
Nepal policemen cordon off the area as they and US rescue workers prepare to pull out Pemba Tamang, a teenage boy from the rubble of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo / Manish Swarup)
AP Photo / Manish Swarup
Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as a Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shresta)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shresta
Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as a Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shresta)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shresta
A U.S. doctor attends to Pemba Tamang inside an ambulance after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County assisted in the teen’s rescue. Virginia Task Force One specializes in finding survivors in collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo / Manish Swarup)
AP Photo / Manish Swarup
View of the debris of collapsed Bhaktapur Durbar Square after Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Across central Nepal, including in Kathmandu, the capital, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in the open without clean water or sanitation since Saturday’s massive earthquake, one of the worst to hit the South Asian nation in more than 80 years.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
Sita Karka, suffering two broken legs from Saturday’s massive earthquake, arrives by helicopter from the heavily-damaged Ranachour village at a landing zone in the town of Gorkha, Nepal, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Helicopters crisscrossed the skies above the high mountains of Gorkha district on Tuesday near the epicenter of the weekend earthquake, ferrying the injured to clinics, and taking emergency supplies back to remote villages devastated by the disaster.
(AP Photo/Wally Santana)
AP Photo/Wally Santana
Sita Karka, suffering two broken legs from Saturday’s massive earthquake, arrives by helicopter from the heavily-damaged Ranachour village at a landing zone in the town of Gorkha, Nepal, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Helicopters crisscrossed the skies above the high mountains of Gorkha district on Tuesday near the epicenter of the weekend earthquake, ferrying the injured to clinics, and taking emergency supplies back to remote villages devastated by the disaster.
(AP Photo/Wally Santana)
AP Photo/Wally Santana
A view of the Kathmandu airport two days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. Chaos has reigned at Kathmandu’s small airport since the earthquake, with the onslaught of relief flights causing major backups on the tarmac.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
In this April 27, 2015 photo, a man grieves over the body of his relative recovered at the collapsed Sitapyla church in Kathmandu, Nepal. A strong earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday. The catastrophe has overwhelmed Nepal’s government, with the challenge expected to worsen as the death toll climbs as rescuers reach vulnerable mountain villages that were hit hard.
(AP Photo/Wally Santana)
AP Photo/Wally Santana
A man sits with a child on his lap as victims of Saturday’s earthquake, wait for ambulances after being evacuated at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
A child injured in Saturday’s earthquake, is carried by a Nepalese soldier after being evacuated as they wait to disembark from an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
A young girl walks with a boy over a collapsed school playground in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Wally Santana)
AP Photo/Wally Santana
Portraits and a wall clock is seen hanging on the remains of a house damaged in Saturday’s earthquake in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
People walk past damage caused by Saturday’s earthquake in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Victims of Saturday’s earthquake, sit on stretchers as they wait for ambulances after being evacuated at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
A rescue team with a sniffer dog walks at the site of destruction caused by Saturday’s earthquake in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Nepalese soldiers carry a wounded woman to a waiting Indian air force helicopter as they evacuate victims of Saturday’s earthquake from Trishuli Bazar to Kathmandu airport in Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
Nepalese volunteers unload relief material brought in an Indian air force helicopter for victims of Saturday’s earthquake at Trishuli Bazar in Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
Indian tourists wait in a queue to be evacuated by special Indian Air Force plane at the Nepal International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Photo/Manish Swarup
In this photo provided by World Vision, a house stands destroyed by Saturday’s earthquake at Paslang village in Gorkha municipality, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. Reports received so far by the government and aid groups suggest that many communities perched on mountainsides are devastated or struggling to cope. Udav Prashad Timalsina, the top official for the Gorkha district, near the epicenter of Saturday’s quake, said he was in desperate need of help.
(Bishwo Ghimire/World Vision via AP)
Bishwo Ghimire/World Vision via AP
A view of the Kathmandu airport two days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. Chaos has reigned at Kathmandu’s small airport since the earthquake, with the onslaught of relief flights causing major backups on the tarmac.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
Damaged buildings lean to their sides in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Wally Santana)
AP Photo/Wally Santana
Lunch delivery men or ‘Dabbawala’ light candles on a tiffin box for the victims of Nepal’s earthquake, outside a railway station in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake hit the capital, Kathmandu, on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets. The earthquake was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in more than 80 years. It and was strong enough to be felt all across parts of India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet and Pakistan.
(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT – Members of Nepalese army rescue a dead body from inside a building that collapsed in Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Rescue teams carry a body dug out of the collapsed Sitapyla church in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings.
(AP Photo/Wally Santana)
AP Photo/Wally Santana
A Nepalese man walks through destruction caused by Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Nepalese queue at a gas station in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The city is still experiencing a series of aftershocks following a massive earthquake on Saturday. After two days without power, desperate people have been forming long line outside gasoline stations to secure fuel.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
Residents rescue items from debris of a house that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
A Sri Lankan man reads a newspaper, with the headline reading “Devastation to the land where Buddha was born”, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena
(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Nepalese residents gather in an open space at the site of destruction caused after Saturday’s earthquake in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Indian tourists wait in a queue to be evacuated by special Indian Air Force plane at the Nepal International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Photo/Manish Swarup
A Nepalese family collects belongings from their home destroyed in Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
A rescue chopper lands carrying people from higher camps to Everest Base Camp, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. An avalanche on Saturday, set off by the massive earthquake that struck Nepal, left more than a dozen people dead and dozens more injured.
(AP Photo/Nima Namgyal Sherpa)
AP Photo/Nima Namgyal Sherpa
A portrait of Hindu Goddess Lakshmi hangs on the remains of a house that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
A Hindu Nepalese woman offers prayers at Indrayani temple, that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
A rescue chopper prepares to land, carrying people from higher camps to Everest Base Camp, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. An avalanche on Saturday, set off by the massive earthquake that struck Nepal, left more than a dozen people dead and dozens more injured.
(AP Photo/Nima Namgyal Sherpa)
AP Photo/Nima Namgyal Sherpa
Locals take snapshots with their cell phones at the historic Dharahara Tower, a city landmark, that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
In this April 25, 2015 photo, volunteers help remove debris of a building that collapsed at Durbar Square, after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. A strong magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley before noon Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings, officials said.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
