EQ Sentry is a free, bilingual public-safety project for Nepal — live earthquake data joined to practical preparedness. This page is about why it needs to exist.
These are not distant statistics. Almost every family in Nepal carries a piece of these numbers.
Figures are widely reported estimates from Nepal's Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), USGS and government records; exact counts vary by source.
Since instruments began recording, no generation of Nepalis has been spared. The pattern is the argument for this site.
Several minutes of shaking flattened bazaars in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan and liquefied the eastern Terai. The original Dharahara fell.
10,000+ dead (Nepal & India)A far-western shock that destroyed thousands of mud-and-stone homes — the region seismologists still watch most closely today.
~100 deadEastern Nepal and Bihar again. Schools and offices collapsed in the morning rush; building codes existed mostly on paper.
700+ deadThe fault under central Nepal unzipped for 140 km, directly beneath the Kathmandu Valley. Langtang village vanished under an avalanche. Seventeen days later the M7.3 aftershock brought down what the first quake had weakened.
8,979 dead · 22,300 injuredA midnight M6.4 in western Nepal. Modest by magnitude, deadly in effect — the same unreinforced masonry, the same cold nights outside.
154 deadJust across the border, strongly felt through eastern Nepal — a reminder that the fault does not observe boundaries, and that the west has waited since 1505.
felt across NepalThe 2015 earthquake caused about US$7 billion in damage and losses — roughly a third of everything Nepal's economy produces in a year, gone in ninety seconds. Reconstruction needs were priced at US$6.7 billion; a million children lost their classrooms for months; tourism, the lifeline of whole valleys, stalled just as families needed income most.
And the burden lands hardest where margins are thinnest: hill villages of unreinforced stone, families whose entire savings are the house itself, farmers who lost seed stores and livestock along with walls. Poverty rose in the affected districts while the country rebuilt. An earthquake here is not only a geological event — it is a financial catastrophe that repeats every generation.
Earthquakes can't be predicted, and a website cannot stop one. But the death toll is not fixed either — it is negotiated in advance, by what people know and practise before the shaking starts. A family that has drilled gets under the table in three seconds. A go-bag packed on a calm Sunday becomes 72 hours of water. A grandmother who knows the gas valve prevents the fire that follows.
That knowledge has too often lived in English-language PDFs and conference rooms. EQ Sentry's job is to move it into every pocket — in नेपाली and English, free, fast on a cheap phone, working offline when the network fails. If this site helps even a few households act faster, it has paid for itself many times over.
Every word on this site exists in नेपाली and English — safety information can't require a second language.
The preparedness guides and emergency numbers are cached offline — available right after a quake, when they matter most.
Live feeds from USGS and EMSC, a century-deep catalogue, and our data published back out for anyone to reuse.
No ads, no accounts, no paywall. Public safety is not a product.
Follow the 2015 Gorkha earthquake from stored strain to buried fault slip. Explore each stage to see how plate movement becomes ground shaking.
Years of loading and seconds of rupture use different playback time scales.
Movement is exaggerated in a fixed frame; hollow markers show initial positions.
India moves slowly beneath the Himalaya. Friction holds part of the Main Himalayan Thrust in place, so the surrounding rock deforms and stores strain.
Schematic views. Geometry, movement and time are simplified; the sequence is slowed for clarity.
Science: USGSReduced motion: select a stage to explore.
Hundreds of seismometers feed USGS and EMSC — two independent agencies that register every significant quake on Earth within minutes.
We filter those feeds to Nepal and the Himalaya, cross-check them against each other, add a century-deep catalogue — and put every word in नेपाली and English.
Live map, browser alerts, district risk, drills. The distance between a tremor and an informed household, shortened to seconds.
Earthquake Hazards Program — the live global feed behind our map and alerts.
Visit →European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre — the independent real-time cross-check.
Visit →Nepal's National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center — the official national record.
Visit →Nepal's disaster authority and its open hazard & incident portal.
Visit →EQ Sentry is an informational service, not an official warning authority, and it does not predict earthquakes — no technology can. The map shows events that have already been recorded. In an emergency, always follow the instructions of Nepal's official agencies and call the emergency numbers. We provide this information in good faith but cannot guarantee it is complete or error-free.
Alert sign-up details are stored on your own device; they are sent only to our alert server once delivery is enabled — and to no one else. We will never sell your information.
Full privacy policy →EQ Sentry is a public-safety initiative by Prashant Acharya. We welcome corrections, partnerships and feedback.