Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Nepal’s Key Historic Sites: What’s Rubble, What’s Still Standing

February 8, 2018

Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT) Summary by Camilla Favaretti.

 

Sites of global cultural and religious significance are reported heavily damaged, but the shrine of Buddha’s birthplace appears unharmed.

Nepal’s Historic Sites, before and after the earthquake

Source: National Geographic

 

Camilla Favaretti is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine

Curated topics from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake to help inform reconnaissance activities, identify impacted regions, and help document the timeline of earthquake response/recovery.

Information on heritage and historic buildings—context, background, and impacts—from the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake.