The local administration in Gorkha Bazaar, another 10 miles from the epicentre, has requested three extra helicopters to allow further rescue flights and aid distribution of vital "shelter kits" including blankets and tarpaulins.
Another big earthquake on December 13th, with its epicentre in Afghanistan, caused landslides that made travel even harder in the valley and elsewhere.Nearly 200,000 people are in makeshift camps, mainly of tents, at lower altitudes.
In January 2010 another powerful earthquake, of magnitude 7.0, struck; its epicentre was southwest of the city, and it devastated Port-au-Prince and the surrounding region.
However, he added, over the past few weeks, there had been a slowing down in the rate of new cases in what had been the epicentre in Liberia: "Every time you isolate another patient, every time you have a safe burial, you are taking some of the heat out of this outbreak".
Berlin may be universally known as the clubbing and electronic music epicentre of the world but it was another German city that arguably gave birth to it several decades earlier.
There are 11 in barely a 250m radius, with the corner of Broadway and Bank Street the epicentre: a William Hill, a Paddy Power, a Ladbrokes and another William Hill are all next to each other.
Another concern has been avian influenza (bird flu), Vietnam being the epicentre of a major outbreak in the early 21st century.
The smartphone data reproduced both the movement and its magnitude with high accuracy, spotting the simulated epicentre and sending out a warning within five seconds.In another, real research-station data from the 2011 Tohoku quake in Japan were used.
"I was very close to the epicentre when Tuesday's quake hit and children were hugging one another and crying for hours as people fled their homes.
