Eidsvold earthquake 2015 economic cost
People gather near cracks in a road caused by an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, April 26, 2015. The economic impact from Saturday's magnitude-7.8 quake could be as much as $10 billion.Reuters. Even before Saturdayâs massive earthquake in Nepal, the Himalayan country wedged between India and China was faltering.ourism as a share of the countryâs economic activity more than doubled last year, to about $677 million, rapidly approaching 10 percent of the countryâs GDP. Most of Nepalâs tourists come from China and India, who flock to the countryâs religious temples.