Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Equipment, Utilities, Architectural Shell & Contents at Kathmandu Hospital

February 8, 2018

Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT) Summary by Bishnu Pandey and Anna Weiser-Woodward.

This report details a seismic vulnerability assessment conducted in 2013 for the National Academy of Medical Sciences (Bir Hospital) in Kathmandu, Nepal

Bir Hospital Initial Seismic Vulnerability Assessment

 

Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction and the Environment at British Columbia Institute of Technology

Anna Weiser-Woodward is Graduate Engineer at Walter P. Moore

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 hospital impacts from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake.