Earthquake Report from the General Directorate of Disaster Affairs (In Turkish)
Read the Report: 23/10/2011 VAN-Merkez Depremi (1.8 MB PDF) You can also go to the General Directorate of Disaster Affairs – Earthquake Research Department website for more information at: http://www.deprem.gov.tr/sarbis/Shared/Anasayfa.aspx.
Past pushes for safer schools in Nepal
In 1998 the National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET) conducted a survey of public schools in the Kathmandu Valley region, their finding were published in a report written in collaboration with GeoHazards International and is avaialable for download: http://nset.org.np/nset2012/index.php/publication/publicationdetail/pubfileid-142/pubid-1/type-Recent They found that approximately 60% of schools were built using weak traditional materials and only […]
List of schools with documented retrofits / new construction
“Of the 10,000 schools in the Kathmandu Valley – half of the country’s schools – only 260 have been assessed and retrofitted” source The majority of retrofits were carried out using jacketing of walls with reinforced concrete. Rebuilds or new construction have been employing confined masonry. […]
Damage to schools threatens education system
The earthquakes in Nepal have caused server damage to educational infrastructure in Nepal. Wall collapse has been a common failure in smaller schools, and severe damage has even been reported in some newer construction. Even buildings at Kathmandu University have been found structurally unsound. It is expected to take at least two to three years before the […]
Resilience in Nepal – Planning and Outcomes
At the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Geneva, 2011), Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, remarked that “by our actions, we can either compound disasters or diminish them.” (c) UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media Communities have the power to keep natural hazards from turning into disasters. Resilient communities can bounce back from […]
Emergency Response in Rural Areas
One week has gone by after the Nepal Earthquake that struck on April 25, 2015. Aid was rushed to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. As of today, May 2, 2015 the electricity in Kathmandu has been turned back on, and while it is not constant, this has brought relief for many of the residents. However, […]
Immediate Aid and Long-Term Recovery Efforts
In the wake of the recent Nepal earthquake, the distribution of immediate aid is at the forefront of response efforts made by the Nepali government, the United Nations, and other local and foreign aid organizations. However, long term recovery efforts are just as important in order to prevent a similar state of affairs in the […]
Earthquake a Wake-up Call for Hydropower Developers
Taking lessons from the damages caused by the April 25 earthquake and series of aftershocks, hydropower developers in Nepal are to be more vigilant in undertaking study on geological and earthquake induced landside hazards. As landslides were one of the main causes of damage, the developers have also urged the government to conduct geological […]
News Articles
A. Nepal Imagery Aerial Footage Of Nepal Earthquake Epicenter Reveals Landslides And Widespread Devastation by The World Post (April 29, 2015) Aerial images show Nepal earthquake damage by CNN (April 27, 2015) Avalanche engulfing Everest Base Camp caught on video by CNN (April 27, 2015) Before and After Pictures of the Earthquake in Nepal by […]
Hisotric Seismicity
BSSA: Nepal BSSA & SRL Articles Special Collection SSA: Nepal BSSA & SRL Articles Special Collection D’Ayala, Dina, 2004. Correlation of fragility curves for vernacular building types: houses in Lalitpur Nepal and in Istanbul Turkey, 13 WCEE, papers #486. Hemchandra Chaulagain1,2 • Hugo Rodrigues3 •Hemchandra Chaulagain1, Hugo Rodrigues, Vitor Silva, Enrico Spacone, Humberto Varum. 2015. Seismic risk assessment and hazard mapping in Nepal. Nat Hazards Jimmy, G.K. 2006. Seismic […]