According to news reports, there was a magnitude 7.3 quake centered near Namche Bazaar, near Mount Everest and the Chinese border, just after noon local time today.
Early reports from news sources indicate more than 30 people have been killed and more than a thousand injured by this latest quake.
Staffers in Nuwakot are reporting one collapsed building and a landslide on nearby hills, and Oxfam workers in Gorkha, west of Kathmandu, are reporting that additional buildings have collapsed.
“People on the ground are very shaken, very frightened. They had just started to go back to something approaching normality,” Oxfam’s Jane Cocking told the BBC World Service this morning. “[Today’s earthquake is] going to be a huge challenge for ordinary people across the country.”
Oxfam is currently engaged in a major response to the April 25 earthquake, providing clean water and sanitation, food, and emergency shelter and aims to reach 400,000 people with assistance. We are now rapidly assessing the additional needs from the latest earthquake.