Nepal (LIDC) - ABILITY TO COPE WITH EARTHQUAKES

• MODIFYING VULNERABILITY 


  national society for earthquakes technology

  • an NGO
  • awareness day
  • education
  • mapping high risk zones
  • building codes
  • go bags (including water purification tablets, water, dried foods and a whistle)
• MODIFYING LOSS


  intervention by relief agencies

  • needed over 300 agencies in 2015
  • including the UN, EU, UK and NGOs like the red cross
• CONCLUSION


  mitigation and planning reduced the number of casualties, however remote mountains didn't get the aid they needed and thousands still died