UPDATE 1.07pm: Former Bendigo Advertiser journalist Eugene Duffy is among the Australians missing in Nepal.

Mr Duffy worked for the Bendigo Advertiser between 2006 and 2008. He currently works at The Courier in Ballarat as a content director.

The Courier reported Mr Duffy was still unaccounted for yesterday.

Mr Duffy left for Nepal three weeks ago and is believed to be hiking in Pokhara, a remote part of the region. 

He last contacted his family on April 20.

UPDATE 1pm: The Daylesford family feared lost in the Nepal earthquake is safe and well, relieved family members have confirmed.

Francis and Jen Comber and their two young daughters Rani, 7, and Neve, 8, were in the remote Tsum Valley, near the Nepal-Tibet border, when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit on Saturday.

Relatives had been anxiously awaiting news from the family when they received a phone call on Monday morning.

​Mrs Comber's elated father Howard Brownscombe said his daughter had contacted a relative by phone to say she and her family were safe and well.

Their tour operator also confirmed that the family was alive, he said.

"I didn't want to take it on absolute faith from the tour operator...but we have had two messages now and they are OK," Mr Brownscombe told Fairfax Media.

He said both Mr and Mrs Comber's phones were switched off, but he suspected they were sleeping after the ordeal. He said he expected the family would continue on their journey to India.

Dozens of other Victorians remain unaccounted for. Read more at The Age.

UPDATE 8.15am: Bendigo couple James Watson and Kayla Bennett are safe and well, the ABC has reported this morning.

EARLIER: A BENDIGO couple and four members of a Daylesford family are missing after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal.

The five are among 350 Australians listed as unaccounted for after the deadly earthquake devastated the country early on Saturday, killing more than 1800 people and cutting off communications.

Bendigo’s Kayla Bennett, 23, has been registered on the Red Cross Nepal Earthquake Restoring Family Links website as missing in Namche, Tengboche.

Her Cobram-based parents Michael and Jo-Ann Bennett last heard from their daughter on Saturday. She was travelling with her partner James Watson, also from Bendigo.

The Comber family from Daylesford has also been listed on the Restoring Family Links website as missing in the Tsum Valley area near the Nepal-Tibet border. 

Francis and Jen Comber are travelling with their two young daughters Rani, 7, and Neve, 8. 

Mr Comber’s mother Dianne Comber said they were waiting on any news of the family. 

“They were trekking in the Tsum Valley, in the earthquake area,” she said. 

“No one’s heard anything from them yet.” 

The family has been travelling through Asia since June last year. 

Daylesford teenager Liam Oliver, 18, and his aunt Dianne Coburn were reported missing but the ABC reported late on Sunday they had contacted family and were safe.

The pair were travelling in the Annapurna Valley when the quake hit.

Liam Oliver posted a photo of himself and Ms Coburn on his Facebook page on April 20.

The teen lived in Daylesford and attended Daylesford Secondary College.

He lists Hepburn Springs cafe Moor Please as his employer.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed 549 Australians are registered as travelling in Nepal.

The Australian embassy has confirmed the safety of more than 200 so far.

Foreign minister Julie Bishop said there were no reports of Australian deaths.

Ms Bishop said damage to infrastructure had made communication difficult but urged families to try to contact their loved ones directly.

Aid agencies including Oxfam are already sending teams to Nepal to help in the aftermath of the country’s deadliest earthquake in more than 80 years.

Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke says a group of disaster specialists from the UK is flying in with supplies.

“People are gathered in their thousands in open spaces and are scared, as there were several aftershocks,” Dr Szoke said in a statement.

“Oxfam staff in Nepal, along with thousands of others, are sleeping outside tonight in football fields and other open spaces because they are the safest place to be.”