An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 occurred near Namche Bazar, Nepal at 15:32:12.70 UTC on Dec 18, 2014.Kathmandu has topped the earthquake risk list while Nepal is ranked 11th globally, according to the information shared at a programme in the capital on Friday. At an interaction programme on role of media on earthquake risk reduction organized by the National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET-Nepal), Deputy Executive Director of NSET-Nepal Ramesh Guragain said the main reason behind the quake risk was the geological structure. It is said that the entire part of Nepal falls in a high earthquake intensity belt: almost the whole of Nepal falls in high intensity scale. Guragain said that earthquake resistant buildings should be built to reduce the damages caused by the earthquakes and the role of media for the same was the maximum.
