Nepal Earthquake
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- Nepal Earthquake
- Earthquake
- 7.8 magnitude
- Gorkha, Nepal
- 25th April, 2015
- GDP per capita: $690
- Plate boundary. Destructive, Indo- Australian plate is being subjected underneath the Eurasian plate
- Primary impacts
- around 9,000 died, more than 22,000 injured
- 800,000 buildings destroyed
- 4 million people left homeless
- cost of damage: $5 billion
- roads and bridges destroyed
- water pipes and tanks destroyed
- leaving 2 million people without clean water and sanitation
- secondary impacts
- Earthquake triggered avalanches on Mt. Everest, killing 18 people
- many mountain roads were blocked by landslides, preventing emergency services from reaching remote ares
- a lack of clean water and sanitation caused outbreaks of typhus
- which killed at least 13 people
- immediate responses
- India and china sent teams to help residents and rescue people trapped by debris, but a lack of tools and machinery slowed down the effort
- Charities such as Oxfam provided medicine, food and water supplies
- the Red Cross set up emergency shelters for 13,000 families who had lost their homes
- People tried to recover the dead and great the injured, but damaged roads made it hard for emergency services to get through
- long term responses
- The world bank group offered $500 million worth of projects to build earthquake resistant housing and rebuild roads and irrigation systems
- some projects are still ongoing
- NGO's are working with residents to improve their resilience to disasters
- eg. by providing alternate energy resources
- Road from Nepal into Tibet was reopened 2 years after the event
- but many roads still remain damaged
- Many heritage sites were reopened in 2015 to encourage tourism back to the area
- water supply is being restored, but two years after the event, many people still didn't have access to clean water
- The world bank group offered $500 million worth of projects to build earthquake resistant housing and rebuild roads and irrigation systems
- Earthquake
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