2015 Nepal Earthquakes and Landslides — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. Along with damage due to shaking, the earthquake and its aftershocks triggered many large and small landslides throughout the region. As of early May, over 3,000 individual landslides had been identified, based on analysis of hundreds of satellite images collected after the earthquake. The animation shows an image pair acquired by WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 over one example location near the town