Nepal was not ready nor well-equipped for the 7.8 magnitude quake, which struck on April 25 , 2015 one year ago today, and killed nearly 9,000 people, injured more than 20,000 and destroyed more than 600,000 homes.
The cyclone, which struck on the night of May 2 last year, was one of the deadliest storms in recorded history, dwarfing the toll of more than 1,700 dead from Hurricane Katrina.
Most of the people killed by the cyclone, which struck on May 2-3, drowned.
The quake, which struck on Tuesday morning, had a magnitude of 6.6.
Cyclone Nargis, which struck on May 3, left at least 134,000 people dead or missing.
The earlier quake, which struck on Oct. 23, left about 3,700 buildings uninhabitable, according to the government's disaster relief center in Ankara, the capital.
But dozens of international teams continued to pick through the rubble of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck on Tuesday last week and has killed an estimated 200,000 people.
Moshe Dayan, however, quietly mobilized all of Israel's mobile brigades, which struck on October 29 and took the Egyptians and the Americans by surprise.
The first quake, which struck on Thursday, killed most of the students in the village's first-grade class, injured scores of people and left thousands homeless.
Two Royal Navy ships and an RAF cargo plane are to be dispatched to areas hit by the tsunami, which struck on Sunday.
