Nepal Earthquake Survivors Return To Sacramento Days After Devastating Temblor

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Volunteers who survived the Nepal earthquake arrived back home in Sacramento on Tuesday.

Kirk Hansen managed to capture on his iPhone the last few seconds of a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Nepal.

"It made you want to sit down," he said. "You didn't want to try and ride it out on your feet," he said.

The video also has the panicked screams from a nearby carnival, and a man on all fours being shaken by the earth below.

Mike Roten was the project manager of the group of volunteers from Intel who had planned to spend one of their last days of their trip sightseeing in a small nearby town to Kathmandu. Look at this video of a crumbled temple—they were there.

Down below the devastation, buildings that once stood are now flattened.

"We got a call from our hotel guy that the hotel where we had stayed in and checked out of three hours earlier went down the hillside—he used the word 'gone,'" he said.

Both Roten and Hansen experienced earthquakes before when they lived in the Bay Area, but say nothing compares to this one.

"The one that was on top of the mountain top was very violent, and it was like somebody was shaking the mountain as hard as they can, like this," Roten said.

It took the group two days to finally catch a flight out of the chaotic local airport where hundreds of people had set up camp, unable to return home.

Many of their friends they had to leave behind are still struggling for basic needs after the earthquake. But the computer labs they built for young students there were not destroyed.