The 2015 Nepal earthquake, which (1) more than 8,000 people and injured more than 18,000, occurred at 11:56 on 25th April. The earthquake (2) about twenty seconds. Its epicenter was the village of Barpak, Gorkha district, and its hypocenter was at a depth (3) approximately 15km. It was the worst (4) disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake.

Hundreds of thousands of people became (5) when their houses collapsed, entire villages were flattened. Many old buildings were completely (6) . The country also had a continued risk of landslides.

Two other powerful earthquakes struck Nepal at 06:11 and 06:45. The (7) earthquake measured 7.9 Mw and its epicenter was identified at a distance of 80km to the northwest of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Bharatpur was (8) nearest major city to the main earthquake, 53km from the epicenter. The second one was somewhat less powerful (9) the first one. It occurred 65km east of Kathmandu. These (10) were really terrible.