article_snippet.sent: The Nepal earthquake that has killed at least 2,500 people was a 'nightmare waiting to happen', disaster experts said last night.
article_snippet.sent: Just a week ago, 50 earthquake scientists from country the world met in the capital Kathmandu to discuss how the overdeveloped area would cope with such disaster.
article_snippet.sent: Resting on colliding tectonic plates, Nepal is under constant threat of earthquake of natural disaster.
article_snippet.sent: But experts claim Nepal shoddy infrastructure and poor building standards make country much less equipped to deal with the aftermath of major incidents.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking of the Nepalese capital where the scientific meeting was held, one expert said it the devastation was 'an accident waiting to happen'. '
article_snippet.sent: As rescuers scramble to save stranded climbers on Mount Everest where 18 died under avalanches yesterday, experts are warning the worst of the disaster is to come.
article_snippet.sent: Nepal was making progress on reducing Nepal vulnerability to earthquakes, but not quickly or big enough.
article_snippet.sent: With an annual population growth rate of 6.5 per cent and one of the highest urban densities in the world, the 1.5 million people living in the Kathmandu Valley were clearly facing a serious and growing earthquake risk,' a late 1990s report summarising the Kathmandu Valley risks said, laying out 'the problem' the Kathmandu Valley faces. '
article_snippet.sent: a late 1990s report summarising the Kathmandu Valley risks was also clear that the next large earthquake to strike near the Kathmandu Valley the Kathmandu Valley would cause significantly greater loss of life, structural damage, and economic hardship than past earthquakes had inflicted.'
article_snippet.sent: Dozens of people were gathered in the car park of Kathmandu's Norvic International Hospital, where thin mattresses had been spread on the ground for patients rushed outside, some patients wearing hospital pyjamas, while doctors and nurses were treating people.
highlights_snippet.sent: Earthquake experts met in Kathmandu last week to plan for similar disaster .
  