Ten years after the earthquake in Nepal, a newly built village is almost empty.

Nepal was hit by a severe earthquake in 2015. The reconstruction led to discussion: "The houses do not fit in with how people live in this region."

It happened on April 25, 2015. At 11:56 in the morning, a sound was heard as if the earth was cracking in the Nepalese village of Barpak. The narrow streets were filled with rubble and dust. From a small square, older men witnessed the worst natural disaster to hit Nepal in a hundred years.

The date and time of the disaster can now be read in large black numbers on a monument in the village, which has been given the shape of a viewpoint, supported by pillars that each symbolize an affected area.

This Friday it is ten years ago that that earthquake took the lives of almost nine thousand people. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of buildings, including centuries-old monuments, were damaged by the quake that had a magnitude of 7.8. Barpak, a village at an altitude of 1,900 meters in the central district of Gorkha, was a stone's throw from the epicenter.

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