James Oglethorpe and his family, originally from East Sussex, lives in Kathmandu: "The first one I was in the car, the second one outside and this one working at my desk which I got under. It felt as though a giant had hold of the house and shook and shook and shook it, everything shaking and swaying. The ground is still moving as though we are on jelly. My nerves are shot for the time being. Thankfully we are all safe.

"My son works for the UN and is walking home, my wife has been out but is coming home. We are putting up tents on the waste ground beside our house, which we did after the last one. We'll sleep out there tonight. Our house does look ok, in the local neighbourhood some walls are down and a six storey block of flats has major cracks. It is probably compounded damage since the last time."