"We had slept under tents for many day after the previous earthquake. Just as the situation seemed to be getting normal and after we had moved back to our home from the tent, another earthquake has terrorized us," said visibly panicked Kopila. "We have no option but to sleep under the open sky until we feel safe to go inside the house."Tuesday's earthquake, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, shook the hopes and confidence of valley residents sending them out of their homes in search of safety.
Contradictory to what was predicted, powerful earthquake hitting the capital and beyond was extremely shocking for the people who were barely managing to recover from trauma and losses left behind by the earlier quake.
People in Kathmandu, just like the Poudel couple, were on Tuesday seen busy buying tents and looking for open spaces throughout the day.
"We are not in a condition to go back to our apartment in Naxal. The tremors of such huge magnitude have left us terrified," said Kopila.
The couple originally from Fujel VDC in Gorkha district, had sent their children to live in their home village temporarily and were planning to call them back soon thinking that earthquake would not return.
"However, the Tuesday's earthquake proved us wrong," said Kopila in a faint voice. The couple runs a fruit shop in Naxal.
While each and every household in Kathmandu is worried about their safety, people from various parts of quake-hit districts, currently living in makeshift tents here, have changed their plan of going back to their respective houses.
Instead of going back to their respective houses, they were now seen erecting fences to block rainwater from entering the tents following the quake on Tuesday.
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