Facing the most severe earthquake for the past decades, Nepal and especially the Kathmandu area show unimagineable devastations.
NOAA Report – Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the Nation’s Scorekeeper in terms of addressing severe weather and climate events in their historical perspective. As part of its responsibility of monitoring and assessing the climate, NCDC tracks and evaluates climate events in the U.S. and globally that have great economic and societal impacts.