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Nepal earthquake: 'You can't rule out more earthquakes to come'

Source(s): International Business Times Inc.
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Nepal has been struck by another strong earthquake just a few weeks after a magnitude 7.8 quake killed over 8,000 people, reports International Business Times.

According to the article, Brian Baptie, head of Seismology at British Geological Survey, said that there have already been a number of aftershocks from the latest earthquakes, and that another larger one could hit in the near future: "You can't rule it out. It's impossible to say the timescales on that kind of process. It's highly uncertain.

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