Nepal Earthquake

• When was the Nepal Earthquake?

  25 April 2015
• What was the Magnitude of the Nepal earthquake?

  7.9 on the Moment Magnitude Scale
• Where is Nepal located?

  -Central South Asia

  -Right next to destructive plate margin between Eurasian and Indian Plates
• Is Nepal a wealthy or poor country?

  -LIC

  -109th in the world for GDP

  -145th in the world for HDI
• How does Nepals wealth and development affect its ability to deal with serious earthquakes?

  It would be harder to help the effects as they have less money to send aid or rebuild damage
• Why is wealth and development the main reason for the devastating effects of the earthquake?

  Because buildings would be weak and cheaply built so easily damaged
• Primary effects of the Nepal Earthquake:

  -50% of shops destroyed

  -Cost of damage estimated to be $5 Billion

  -1.4 million people need food and water in weeks to follow

  -3 million people left homeless

  -9000 people died and 20,000 were injured

  -over 8 million people were effected (1/3 of population)

  -7000 schools destroyed

  -hospitals overwhelmed

  -Electricity, water supply and communications effected

  -International airport became congested as aid arrived
• Secondary effects of the Nepal Earthquake:

  -Ground shaking triggered landslides and avalanches blocking relief efforts

  -Avalanche in the Langtang region left 250 missing

  -Earthquake occurred on land so didn't cause Tsunami

  -Avalanche on Mt Everest left 19 dead

  -Landslide blocked river so people evacuated in case of flooding
• What Plate boundary was the Nepal earthquake on?

  Destructive and Collision Margins
• How does the Earthquake trace compare to Chile's?

  It has a lot more aftershocks causing more damage to weakened buildings
• Immediate responses to the Nepal 2015 earthquake:

  -Search and rescue teams, water and medical support arrived quickly from the UK, India and China

  -Field hospitals set up to support over-crowded main hospitals

  -Half a million tents provided to give shelter to the homeless

  -Helicopters rescued many people caught in avalanches on Mt Everest and delivered supplies to villages caught in landslides

  -Social media widely used in search and rescue operations. Satellite images mapped the damaged areas
• Long-Term responses to the Nepal 2015 earthquake:

  -Nepal hosted an international conference to discuss reconstruction and seek technical and financial support

  -Stricter controls introduced on building codes

  -By July 2015 some heritage sites reopened

  -Roads repaired and landslides cleared.

  -300,000 people migrated from Kathmandu to seek shelter.

  -Thousands of homeless people to be re-housed

  -over 7000 schools to be rebuilt or repaired

  -Financial aid pledged by many countries

  -Repairs to Everest. By August 2015 the mountain reopened