The mountain that fell into a river · The year the data got loud

The toll rose for weeks. On 27 August more than 390 people were confirmed dead in Nepal and Tibet. On 1 September Nepal's disaster authority counted 1,003 bodies and 3,916 people missing.

Seismometers around the world picked up the collapse. The US Geological Survey first listed it as a magnitude 4.4 earthquake, then revised it: the signal came from a landslide, of magnitude 5.2.