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CNN reports another major earthquake in Nepal:
This was another major earthquake, the kind where you run for your life, where you seek any open area so nothing falls on your head and you don't get trapped under the rubble.
This is on top of the recent magnitude 7.8 quake there.
The Washington Post reports more than 50 dead:
NEW DELHI — A major earthquake rocked Nepal on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people, collapsing homes and buildings and triggering a panicked rush into the streets less than three weeks after the country’s most devastating quake in decades. The temblor, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, was the largest jolt in the Himalayan nation since the April 25 earthquake that claimed more than 8,000 lives and left more than half a million homes flattened or damaged. The latest quake struck near the Chinese border not far from the base camp at Mount Everest. The camp was engulfed by an avalanche during last month’s earthquake that left 20 climbers dead. Tremors were felt in major cities around the region Tuesday — as far as 600 miles to the east in New Delhi.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 12 2015, @07:36PM
Disasters in places like these are a good argument for cargo airships [nextbigfuture.com] to bring in real quantities of materiel. No runway or port facilities or roads required, and more controllable than parachuting in pallets that seem to wind up on the black market.
In the Haiti earthquake we had trouble getting supplies in at first because the port facilities in Port-au-Prince were inoperable and there was no one running air traffic control at the airport. The supplies that were dropped in randomly were seized by the criminal gangs running the black market. A cargo airship could have landed w/o airport facilities and been distributed in an orderly fashion under armed guard.
Washington DC delenda est.