Figure 1. Damage to buildings within the Swayambhu Temple complex, known colloquially as the Monkey Temple. Damage at the site may have been exacerbated by amplification of seismic waves (topographic amplification) associated with the small hill on which the complex was built (Sánchez-Sesma, 1993). The top of the hill is about 75 meters above the adjacent valley. Credit: Susan Hough, U.S. Geological Survey, public domain