Just two weeks after over 8,000 people died when a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, another major earthquake has hit the developing country in the area near Mount Everest.

According to CNN, at least 50 people have died in Nepal due to this latest earthquake. The BBC reports that officials have stated there have been more than 1,000 people injured, and in India at least 17 have also perished.

This latest earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.3, hit near the town of Namche Bazaar and caused thousands of residents to go into the streets of Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu.

The devastating quake was centered around 47 miles east of Kathmandu, in a rural area near the Chinese border, and was felt in northern India, Tibet, as well as in Bangladesh.

India's home ministry announced that 16 people had been killed in the state of Bihar, and that one person had died in Uttar Pradesh, while officials in China confirmed that one person was dead in Tibet.

"For the first seconds, it was complete silence. By the fifth second, everybody started to scream," said said Marc Sarrado, a 41-year-old documentary filmmaker from Spain who was in Nepal's Nuwakot Valley when the quake hit.

"It was really, really intense. Even when the shaking stopped, people were still screaming. They were completely panicked, because they knew exactly what it was."

As announced in a U.S. Department of Defense release, the U.S. Agency for International Development is currently working with several organizations and nations from around the world to provide relief to the area, which is still suffering from the last earthquake.

Thomas Frey, a humanitarian adviser to Pacom (United States Pacific Command), recently spoke of the effort required for this kind of aid, saying: “It takes coordination and collaboration on the ground [and] working in support of the Nepalese government so we can work together to allocate resources to the most needy areas.”

However, helping has also led to some risks. The Associated Press reports a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepales soldiers is missing. It is reported a nearby Indian helicopter heard radio chatter about a possible fuel problem.

The UH-1Y Huey was conducting humanitarian relief operations near Charikot when it lost contact Tuesday night local time.