March 2016, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Immediately after the Nepal Gorkha Earthquake occurred on Apr. 24, 2015, IRIDeS began to assess the damage of the earthquake and to organize emergency survey team(s) for fact finding and network building missions. This mission is the inherent mechanism of IRIDeS because it aims to create a new academia of disaster mitigation, building on and applying lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the findings of leading edge research into our societies.
Read the Report: IRIDeS Fact-finding and Relationship-building Mission to Nepal (PDF)
