Of all natural disasters, the most dangerous and unpredictable is the earthquake. Caused by fault shifting as tectonic plates move, the sheer force of a considerable earthquake is enough to bring down homes and mountainsides. The earthquake in Nepal on Saturday reached a magnitude of 7.8 and has killed over 5,000 people, but injury and death tolls continue to rise. An estimated number of 8 million people have been affected in some way by the earthquake, which adds up to almost a quarter of Nepal’s population.

Relief efforts have been trickling in, but it’s terrifying to see what devastation can occur in a matter of seconds. Homes collapsed, villages destroyed, and people taking their last breaths by matter of the tremors of the Earth- absolutely terrifying. However, I think it’s important to know that differences are being made as people flock in to help. The human idealism of helping each other resonates in my mind the hope of humanity and the peace that we should strive for world-wide. Humans are dependent on one another, it’s important to remember that.

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