00:00Good evening, and welcome to a new episode of your show, What's Happening?
00:04Today is Tuesday, the 8th, 29th, 26th, 8th of September, 2026, and the 26th of Rabi al-Awwal.
00:12A very strong and powerful earthquake has just struck, and it's dangerous.
00:17Most likely, it will have very serious consequences.
00:22The earthquake struck a short while ago, about 15 minutes ago, with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter
00:29scale,
00:30the danger isn't the earthquake itself or its strength.
00:34The real danger is where this powerful 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck.
00:39It's a strong earthquake, this one.
00:43It struck the country of Nepal.
00:45It struck Nepal at a depth of 35 kilometers, specifically based on what I'm seeing now.
00:52It struck the border area between Nepal and Tibet in southwest China,
00:58so it struck the border area between Nepal and Tibet in southwest China,
01:05and this is very, very dangerous.
01:07The time when the earthquake struck was 9.53 p.m. on Tuesday evening, Nepal time.
01:16Of course, 9.53 p.m.
01:19And apparently, it's 35 kilometers away, or at a depth of 35 kilometers.
01:28And it is about 194 kilometers northwest of Kathmandu,
01:33and also about 92 kilometers north of Pokhara.
01:38Okay, we agreed that it's a border area between Nepal and Tibet, but what's dangerous about it?
01:46Almost the same earthquake, nearly the same area, struck about 13 days ago,
01:52or about 14 days ago, with the same magnitude.
01:565 or 5.2 on the Richter scale, and almost at the same time.
02:03And just a few hours later, because of this earthquake,
02:07we witnessed a devastating flood that hit Nepal and the Tibet region.
02:13It caused thousands of deaths and thousands of missing people.
02:19So, is it really possible for us to witness devastating floods?
02:28Another one hits Nepal, hits areas in China, hits several areas in Nepal.
02:33Honestly, no one knows what's going on.
02:35No one knows.
02:36Right?
02:37It's the cause of this earthquake, like the previous one,
02:40Glacial Lake, collapses in the Himalayas,
02:43and a huge chunk from one of the glacial lakes fell onto or collapsed onto one of the rivers.
02:50That caused this earthquake.
02:52It's a possibility, and a very strong one,
02:55especially since we, or China,
02:58have detected cracks in many of the glacial lakes through satellite imagery.
03:03So, it's possible that we are indeed facing a very serious disaster from a flood,
03:08destructive floods, or a devastating failure.
03:12I'll stay with you.
03:13I'll try to monitor everything in the next few hours.
03:16I'm with you, Hamad.
03:17Hamad al-Drama and Rukandi from the show, What's Happening.
03:20Wishing you all the best.
