For this last episode in our August podcast series of Breaking News Consumers Handbooks,

we travel back to May of 2015, when a massive earthquake struck Nepal.

Earthquakes of this high 7.9 magnitude are rare. when a massive earthquake struck Nepal.

Earthquakes of this high 7.9 magnitude are rare.

This is the worst to hit this Himalayan nation in over 80 years.

So far more than 100 fatalities have been reported.

But observers on the ground say that figure is likely to rise significantly. The earthquake left almost 9,000 dead, 21,000 injured, 3.5 million people homeless.

And yet, within two weeks of the quake, the coverage was already winding down, following

a narrative arc that's replayed without alteration whenever the earth convulses.

Many of Nepal's ancient temples and cultural gems are in ruins.

And on Mount Everest, an urgent rescue response is underway as marooned climbers struggled to stay alive.

A Spanish search team has now arrived to help. So far, they've only found body parts.

In Nepal, a miracle in the rubble.

A 101-year-old man was rescued on Saturday.

He had been trapped underneath his home for eight days.

New picture showed the desperate scramble for supplies

dropped in one of Nepal's remote villages.

But the biggest threat now is the spread of disease after the earthquake.

A familiar story, but is it the real story?

Jonathan Katz was working for the Associated Press in Porto Prince in January 2010

when an earthquake rocked Haiti, the worst natural disaster in the Western Hemisphere.

After Nepal was struck, he was moved to write a piece in the New York Times called How Not to Report on an Earthquake.

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