Photos: Massive quake jolts Nepal
A Nepalese man walks over fallen rocks and past a crushed car on the way to a village in Langtang National Park.
(Joe Sieder / Associated Press)Nepal and its people are reeling in the wake of a massive earthquake and a series of aftershocks.
A rescue team and a sniffer dog search for survivors at a collapsed house in Katmandu, Nepal, after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake on May 12.
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A sign indicates the start of the Langtang Trail in Syabrubesi, Nepal.
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Nepalese villagers walk near their makeshift tents at Laprak village in Gorkha district in Nepal.
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Earthquake-affected people take a bath at their temporary shelter at Tundikhel, Nepal. The official death toll climbed to over 7,200, according to the Nepal Emergency Operation Centre, but is expected to be rise higher as more victims are found in remote regions.
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Teams of Korean nongovernment organization Human in Love and Oman’s national search and rescue team pay their respects to the body of a victim they just retrieved from a collapsed building in Balaju, Nepal.
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A woman walks past a building damaged during the devastating earthquake that hit the country in Balaju, Nepal.
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A group of Buddhist monks wearing protective masks gather on a hillside near the Nepalese heritage site known as the Monkey Temple, overlooking Katmandu, Nepal.
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Nepalese soldiers load relief goods into an Indian helicopter at the airport in Katmandu, Nepal.
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A Katmandu resident walks among collapsed buildings.
(David Ramos / Getty Images)A 15-year-old boy, rescued with the help of Los Angeles firefighters, is carried to safety after being pulled from the rubble of a nine-story Katmandu hotel five days after the devastating earthquake that shook Nepal. (AFP/Getty Images)
A multinational team of rescuers, including several Americans, prepares to pull 15-year-old Pemba Tamang from the rubble of a Katmandu hotel. (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)
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Pemba Tamang, 15, is treated by a medic at an Israeli field hospital after his rescue in Kathmandu. (Menahem Kahana / AFP/Getty Images)
A member of a British search-and-rescue team searches a collapsed building in Katmandu, Nepal. (Will Oliver / EPA)
A Nepalese woman sits in a tent with other displaced earthquake survivors in the village of Laprak, Nepal. (SAjjad Hussain / AFP/Getty Images)
The scene of the collapsed building from which Pemba Lama was rescued five days after the earthquake.
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Andrew Olvera of the L.A. Fire Dept. on the scene in Katmandu.
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The scene in Katmandu where a boy was pulled from rubble five days after the earthquake.
(Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times)A Nepalese police officer at a collapsed building in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Will Oliver / European Pressphoto Agency EPA)
A lion sculpture stands in the rubble in Sakhu, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)
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Indian army doctors administer an injection to an injured man after he was evacuated from higher reaches of mountains by Nepalese army, in Katmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday. (Manish Swarup / AP)
A rescued injured Nepalese women looks out of an Indian air force helicopter as she waits to be taken to a hospital in Katmandu on Wednesday. (PRAKASH SINGH / AFP/Getty Images)
An injured Nepalese boy is carried to a field hospital at an airport in Katmandu on Wednesday. (PRAKASH SINGH / AFP/Getty Images)
Damaged houses in the village of Kerauja in the Gorkha district of Nepal on Wednesday. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP/Getty Images)
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Rescuers from Japan are seen in the historic center of Katmandu on Wednesday. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP/Getty Images)
Nepalese displaced by the earthquake hold up blankets against the rain as an Indian army helicopter delivers aid to the village of Lapu. Rescuers in Nepal battled to reach remote communities devastated by a huge earthquake that has killed scores. (Sajjad Hassain / AFP/Getty Images)
A man walks through rubble of houses damaged by the earthquake in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu on Tuesday. (Menahem Kahana / AFP/Getty Images)
An aerial view shows destroyed and damaged buildings and monuments in Katmandu’s Durbar Square on Monday.
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Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur, Nepal, after the earthquake.
(Kishnor Rana / Associated Press)A man and child sit among evacuees of Saturday’s earthquake waiting for ambulances at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday. (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)
The shadow of an Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief material is cast on an area where tents have been set up by residents in Kathmandu. (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)
Nepalese people light fires to keep themselves warm as they spend a night in the open. Fresh tremors are feared in Kathmandu on Monday. (Prakash Singh / AFP/Getty Images)
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A quake rescue team member sits on top of the debris from a collapsed temple at Basantapur Durbar Square in Katmandu, Nepal, on April 27.
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In the wake of the quake and its aftershocks, volunteers clear the debris of a collapsed temple at Basantapur Durbar Square in Katmandu, Nepal, on April 27.
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Victims of the Nepal earthquake lie inside an Indian air force helicopter as they are evacuated from Trishuli Bazar to Katmandu’s airport on April 27.
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Rescue workers remove debris as they search for quake victims in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on April 26.
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A man helps an injured woman at the International Mount Guide camp at the Mt. Everest base camp in Nepal on April 26.
(Azim Afif / Associated Press)Nepalese policemen try to rescue a woman from the rubble of a destroyed building in Katmandu, Nepal. (Narendra Shrestha / EPA)
Flames rise from burning funeral pyres during the cremation of victims of Saturday’s earthquake, at the Pashupatinath temple on the banks of Bagmati river, in Katmandu, Nepal on Sunday. (Bernat Armangue / AP)
Rescue personnel help a trapped earthquake survivor as his friend lies dead next to him in Katmandu on Sunday. (Prakash Mathema / AFP / Getty Images)
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A Nepalese policeman asks earthquake victims to stand in a line to receive tents in Katmandu, Nepal on Sunday. (Niranjan Shrestha / Associated Press)
The damage at Nepalese heritage site Syambhunaath Stupa, also known as the “monkey temple,” after a powerful earthquake struck Nepal, in Katmandu, Nepal.
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Damaged roads are seen after an earthquake on the outskirts of Katmandu.
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A man sits next to the body of a victim of Saturday’s earthquake before cremation at the Pashupatinath temple on the banks of Bagmati river in Katmandu, Nepal.
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Nepalese novice Buddhist monks who live at the Tergar monastery in the Indian town of Bodhgaya offer prayers for the earthquake victims in Nepal.
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A Nepalese man walks through quake destruction in Bhaktapur.
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Pakistani soldiers load relief supplies for victims of the Nepal earthquake into a C-130 aircraft at the a base in Rawalpindi.
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Nepalese rescue workers carry a body recovered from a collapsed building in Bhaktapur, near Katmandu.
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Injured people are treated outside a Katmandu hospital.
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A woman cries as her son remains trapped in the debris of a building that collapsed in the earthquake in Kathmandu.
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Survivors of Nepal’s massive quake gather in the rubble in Katmandu’s Durbar Square on April 25.
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Survivors of Saturday’s earthquake embrace in Katmandu’s Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was shattered by the quake.
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People clear rubble in Katmandu’s Durbar Square, which was severely damaged by the Nepal earthquake on April 25.
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Emergency rescue workers carry a wounded person on a stretcher after a tower in Katmandu collapsed in the Nepal quake.
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Volunteers remove debris at the historic Dharahara Tower, a Katmandu landmark, after the Nepal quake.
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Residents of Katmandu examine a damaged building after the quake.
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Nepalese people huddle outside a Katmandu hospital after the quake.
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People gather in the street after the quake hit Katmandu.
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