Geography Nepal

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Tameira Hanson

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  • Happended in 2015
  • 7.9 on Ritcher scale
  • 8632 dead, 19009 injured and 2.8 million people displaced
  • risk of after shocks encouraged people to sleep outside
  • risk of after shocks encouraged people to sleep outside
  • 3 mil made homeless
  • hospitals overwhelmed
  • cost estimated US$5 bil
  • Secondary effects
    at least 17 died on mount Everest due to avalanche
    250 missing in Langtang region due to avalanche
  • IMMEDIATE RESPONSES $1 bil international aid over 100 search and rescue responders half a mil tents provided for those made homeless
  • LONG-TERM RESPONSES $3 mil grant provided by the ADB for immediate relief efforts thousands made homeless re housed blockage at Indian border cleared in late 2015 allowing better movement of supplies
    Still has not recovered