By Bret Lizundia, Surya Narayan Shrestha, John Bevington, Rachel Davidson, Kishor Jaiswal, Ganesh Kumar Jimee, Hemant Kaushik, Hari Kumar, Jan Kupec, Judy Mitrani-Reiser, Chris Poland, Suraj Shrestha, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Heidi Tremayne, and Maggie Ortiz.
May 2016, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
The 185-page report describes the findings of a multidisciplinary reconnaissance team sent by EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes program from May 31-June 7, 2015. The thirteen-member international team studied preparedness steps Nepal had taken prior to the event, the extent of damage caused by the earthquake series, and the unfolding process of recovery. Working in partnership with Nepal’s National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET), team members coordinated with nearly thirty other reconnaissance efforts.
The report’s chapter topics include seismology and geotechnical issues; damage to lifelines, buildings, and Nepal’s cultural monuments; building code issues; emergency response and post-earthquake safety evaluations; seismic retrofitting; social, psychological, and cultural factors; and EERI’s new initiatives to document information with remote curators and reconnaissance team collaborators.
Read the Report: EERI Earthquake Reconnaissance Team Report: M7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake on April 25, 2015 and its Aftershocks (18 MB PDF)
