Remote mountainside villages in quake-ravaged Nepal are facing a wait of days before aid workers can assess their needs.

Auckland woman Alicia Scroggins, 21, was having the time of her life in Nepal, before disaster struck on Saturday.

A New Zealand guiding company's team have all been rescued by helicopter from the Western Cwm on Mt Everest, but 17 other people were stranded overnight.

Acting Prime Minister Bill English told Parliament that New Zealand stood with the international community in readiness to help.

Lucette Dillon says she will never be able to describe the “pure terror” she experienced in Kathmandu on Saturday, as the deadly 7.8 earthquake violently shook the house she was in.

The number of New Zealanders unaccounted for in Nepal is down to single figures, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Greg Kay, the New Zealander who died from a heart attack after the Nepal earthquake, was part of the trekking group led by Peter Hillary.

Hundreds of climbers remained trapped on Everest yesterday as rescue teams raced to mount an evacuation before supplies run out.

The first smoke of the funeral pyres was wafting over what remained of Nepal's magnificent Hindu temples.

A leading charity has warned it could be years before Nepal fully recovers from the deadly earthquake that ripped through the country on Saturday.

Three days after the deadly earthquake that claimed more than 3700 lives, several New Zealand families continue to wait for news of their loved ones.

A newlywed British couple ran for their lives and clung desperately to ice axes rammed into the ground to survive a terrifying wall of snow on Everest after the Nepal earthquake.

A Havelock North woman watched buildings crumble when she was caught in the carnage of the earthquake in Nepal.

Raw footage shows the moment an avalanche caused by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal hits Base Camp on Mount Everest.

At least 17 people, including five working for a New Zealand company, were killed at the Mt Everest base camp in Nepal by an avalanche.

Kiwis in Nepal have spoken of yesterday's terrifying earthquake and say the country needs help urgently.

Kiwi hikers trekking down from Mount Everest base camp have described their panic when the devastating quake - which has killed at least 1800 people - hit.

At least 718 feared dead as Nepalese earthquake leads to utter destruction. "Sherpas believe that a lot of people may have been buried in their tents."

Cameras at the Marlborough Racing Club meeting at Waterlea racecourse in Blenheim capture the moment today's 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck. Video / TAB Trackside

A strong earthquake centered just off Kaikoura has caused problems with the Spark mobile network today.

Train services on the Wellington network have been suspended.

The magnitude 2.6 quake shook 5 kilometres south of Ruatoria at a depth of only 5km.

Three strong and "somewhat shallow" earthquakes centred off shore have shaken East Cape today.

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake shook Christchurch overnight.

Officials are warning that hazardous tsunami waves could hit some coastlines in the Pacific after a powerful earthquake struck near Papua New Guinea.

Government ministers, foreign press and ambassadors including New Zealand's Mark Sinclair are sitting in a glitzy conference room in downtown Tokyo, looking at stunning photographs on powerpoint of a....