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Narratives from Nepal: Relief and rebuilding after the Gorkha Earthquake by Lucas Joel Wednesday, November 18, 2015 People at base camp on Everest shown here during an avalanche in 2013 felt the shaking of the April 25 Gorkha quake, which was followed by an enormous avalanche that killed 19 people. Credit: Deana Zabaldo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Base Camp, Mount Everest, April 25, 2015, about noon: A tremendous boom echoes through the air, the ground heaves and a wall-like cloud of snow propelled by an avalanche advances toward the tents. Mountaineers scatter, diving into tents to avoid the blast. One mountaineer has a video camera and captures the whole thing, as he curses and dives into a tent while the cloud of snow engulfs him. He survives, but 19 others perish. This firsthand account of the Gorkha quake is now famous, caught on camera and posted to YouTube. ....
Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale hit Sonitpur GUWAHATI: As Assam continued to feel aftershocks after last week’s earthquake, IIT-Guwahati has said seismic microzonation of urban areas should be carried out and the earthquake-resistant design must be strictly enforced in the state as it comes under zone 5, the seismic risk in the present day situation is very high, and the degree of damage due to both primary and secondary effects with multiple hazards taking place simultaneously, would be very high. Seismic microzoning provides detailed information on earthquake hazards on a much larger scale. Sonitpur, whose headquarters Tezpur was rocked first by a strong tremor magnitude of 6.4 at 7.51 am on Wednesday, and its nearby areas on both sides of the Brahmaputra in central Assam have experienced 23 aftershocks. Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale hit Sonitpur at 4.49 pm on Friday evening, says National Center for Seismology. Another earthqu ....
The Global Impact of COVID-19 - Southasiadisasters.net Issue No. 191, January 2021 Format This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘The Global Impact of COVID-19’, and highlights the consequences, implications, risks and opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic on our current world order. The pandemic and its response, in the form of protracted nationwide lockdowns have had several short-term as well as long term impacts on human health, society, economy and environment. For instance, the severe lockdowns imposed in certain countries have actually caused a widespread economic and humanitarian crisis. Therefore, it is important to draw important lessons from this pandemic to amplify our future preparedness and response capacities to similar shocks. ....