Tourist footage captures incredible moment earthquake hits Nepal

ABOVE: Cellphone video shot by a tourist shows the moment the earthquake strikes Nepal – and the devastating aftermath that follows

A tourist in Bhaktapur, a short distance from Kathmandu, caught on camera the moment Saturday’s devastating earthquake hit the city causing thousands of deaths and widespread damage.

Located about 13 kilometres east of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur is filled with Hindu temples and other elaborate structures and buildings, and is known as Nepal‘s Cultural Gem.

It is one of three royal cities in the Kathmandu Valley.

Many residents remained on edge over aftershocks that have rattled the city since Saturday’s mammoth quake killed more than 5,800 people in Nepal, and destroyed thousands of houses and other buildings.

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More than 70 aftershocks stronger than magnitude 3.2 have been recorded in the Himalayan region by Indian scientists over the past five days, according to J.L. Gautam, the director of seismology at the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi.

The strongest, registering magnitude 6.9, came on Sunday, he said.

On Wednesday, helicopters finally brought food, temporary shelter and other aid to villages northwest of Kathmandu in the mountainous Gorkha District near the epicenter. Entire clusters of homes there were reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood.

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Women greeted the delivery with repeated cries of “We are hungry!”

Bhaktapur, which has a population of about 300-thousand, had the best preserved old city centre in Nepal, and is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

-With files from the Associates Press’ Todd Pitman And Foster Klug