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The May 2015 earthquake that hit Nepal registered 7.8 on the Richter scale.

Two weeks later, a 7.3 Richter scale earthquake hit very close to Mount Everest.


The Richter scale is a standardized method to measure and report the force of seismic waves that earthquakes produce.

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