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B. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has about 1.2 million residents. The epicenter of Saturday's 7.8 magnitude quake was about 50 miles northwest of the capital city. It was followed by a series of aftershocks as strong as 6.7 magnitude.
D. The mountainous north of Nepal has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest point on Earth on Mount Everest. Helicopters were trying to airlift the Mount Everest injured to Kathmandu where other helicopters were bringing emergency aid to the capital.
C. The collision of the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasion plate lifted the world's highest mountain range and makes Nepal one of the most seismically active regions in the world. The two great slabs of the Earth's crust are converging at a relative rate of about two inches a year.
A. Nepal is bordered to the north by China and to the south, east and west by India.