Nepal

• Magnitude - 7.8
• Date/time – April 2015, 11:56 am
• Killed – 9000
• Injured – 20,000
• Homeless – 3 million
• buildings damaged – 600,000
• Cost of damage – $5 billion
• Infrastructure/supplies damage – electricity, water, communication, sanitation
• Secondary effects

  • Avalanches on Mount Everest – killed 19
  • Communication cut off by landslides
  • 250 missing
  • Flooding threatened following landslides- kali gandaki river -many evacuated
• Immediate responses -

  • 500000 tents provided by Red Cross
  • Field hospitals to help overcrowded hospitals
  • Helicopter rescue from avalanches on Mount Everest
  • Water and medical support provided
  • Aid and, water from China
• Long term Responses -

  • Roads repaired and landslides cleared
  • Rehoused 1000s
  • Strict building codes
  • Basecamp repaired – tourism boosted by 2015 – sites reopened on Mount Everest
  • International conference – homeless rehoused