The next one is due, if the royal astrologers are correct, within 15 days. Smart expats are assembling their earthquake kits, complete with spare rupees, leather gloves and Pepto Bismol. But as in San Francisco, so it is in Nepal. Dawn brings another Shangri-La morning. To the north, the mountains ripple like meringue.
Disaster seems impossibly far away.
The days following will witness the celebrations of Lhosar, the Tibetan New Year. Jeff Greenwald is Wanderlust's correspondent in Kathmandu. All rights reserved.