Managing Earthquakes - Nepal
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- Created on: 14-03-22 14:47
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- Managing Earthquakes - Nepal
- Modifying Event
- No possibility of modifying event
- However some action can be taken in reducing ground shaking, landslides through not deforesting
- Modifying Vulnerability
- Has some resources to manage earthquake hazards
- National Society for Earthquake Technology 1993 and Disaster Preparedness Network 1996
- Mapping of high-risk 'shake zones'
- Building codes introduced
- Encouraging households to have a 'go-bag'
- Introducing education programmes
- Organising an annual Earthquake Awareness day
- Has some resources to manage earthquake hazards
- Modifying Loss
- 330 humanitarian agencies involved after 2015 earthquake
- include UN, EU, countries like UK, Japan and NGOs like Red Cross, Christian Aid, Shelter
- 330 humanitarian agencies involved after 2015 earthquake
- Conclusion
- Potential effects of the Ghorka earthquake could have been much higher without management
- as many as 30% of inhabitants could have been killed
- People widely benefitted from educational programmes and building codes.
- Nepal's mountainous topography hindered attempts to get emergency aid to remote villages.
- Thousands of individual households devastated by loss of family members.
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