Where every fact here comes from

If something on this site is not traceable to one of the sources below, it should not be here. Tell us and it gets pulled. Official Nepali sources come first, because where they and this site disagree, they are right.

Nepali government and official bodies

Primary sources. Where these disagree with anything on this site, these are right.

• Nepal Police: Daily casualty and rescue bulletins; the source of the dead, missing and rescued figures.
• NDRRMA: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. Publishes the numbered Sthiti Pratibedan situation reports.
• BIPAD portal: Nepal’s official incident database and river-gauge readings. Read automatically by this site’s /api/incidents endpoint.
• National Emergency Operation Centre: Runs the 1149 disaster hotline and publishes district contacts.
• Department of Hydrology and Meteorology: Rainfall and river-level monitoring.
• National Seismological Centre: Nepal’s own earthquake records.
• Office of the Prime Minister: Publishes the Prime Minister’s Natural Disaster Relief Fund account details.

International agencies and open scientific data

Read automatically, on a schedule, by this site’s own server.

• ReliefWeb (UN OCHA): Humanitarian situation reporting and agency updates.
• GDACS: Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, run by the UN and the European Commission.
• USGS earthquake service: Public-domain earthquake feed, used for the live quake list.
• ICIMOD: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. Its assessment is the basis for what this site says about the suspected cause.
• Wikimedia Commons: Openly licensed photographs, used with credit.

Newsrooms read by the live feed

Headlines and links only. Stories are read at the source, not copied here.

• The Kathmandu Post: Nepal, English.
• Onlinekhabar English: Nepal, English.
• Ratopati: Nepal, Nepali.
• Setopati: Nepal, Nepali.
• Nagarik News: Nepal, Nepali.
• Khabarhub: Nepal, English and Nepali.
• Al Jazeera: International.
• BBC News Asia: International.
• The Guardian, Nepal: International.

Reporting used for the event narrative

Specific stories checked while writing the event pages.

• Wikipedia, 2026 Nepal floods: Useful for cross-checking dates and named places against multiple citations.
• Kathmandu Post, hydropower damage: Damage to the Syabrubesi-area hydropower projects.
• Onlinekhabar, death toll: Running toll and the police breakdown of the missing.
• ICIMOD press release: Suspected cause and the warning about further downstream flooding.
• Reuters, via US News: Expert assessment of a glacier collapse as trigger.
• Al Jazeera photo gallery: Photographs from the first day.

Map and imagery credits

Used under the terms each provider publishes.

• Esri World Imagery: Satellite basemap: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community.
• OpenTopoMap: Terrain basemap, CC-BY-SA.
• OpenStreetMap contributors: Street basemap data, ODbL.

How sources are used

• Figures. Casualty, damage and rescue numbers come only from Nepal Police bulletins and NDRRMA situation reports, typed in by hand, with the bulletin time printed next to the figure.
• The newswire. Headlines and links only, collected on a schedule by this site’s own server. Stories are read at the publisher, not reproduced here.
• Verification. An item is marked verified when it comes from an official alerting source (ReliefWeb, GDACS, USGS) or when two or more independent newsrooms report the same thing. Everything else is left unmarked.
• Photographs. Openly licensed images only, with credit, mostly from Wikimedia Commons. No AI-generated images are used anywhere on this site.

Machine-readable feed

The live feed is available as RSS at https://nepaldisasterupdatelive.nxtimaginelabs.com/feed.xml. The underlying endpoints (/api/news, /api/incidents, /api/official, /api/police) return JSON and are public. They aggregate public sources; each item keeps the name of the publisher it came from.