The long road to quake resilience

Painful past: People paying homage to victims of the 2015 earthquake to mark its 10th anniversary at the Lalitpur Durbar Square near Kathmandu. — AFP

A decade has passed since a massive earthquake ripped through Nepal, but in Ram Bahadur Nakarmi’s home, the damage is still visible – and so is the fear another might strike.

Ten years ago, on April 25, 2015, the ground beneath Nepal shuddered with a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing nearly 9,000 people, injuring over 22,000 and leaving millions homeless.