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4.25.2015 Nepal (M7.8) Earthquake
Updated on 2016/04/11 9:00 (JST)
On April 25, 2015, Nepal was struck by a Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake, causing severe damages and the loss of more than 8,700 lives.
Relevant scientific information will be made available on this webpage.
Relevant scientific information will be made available on this webpage.
The Japanese version of this page is here.
Nepal Reseach Report
Recent and upcoming events:
- On May 8, IRIDeS held a symposium, where experts from related fields gave presentations about key issues including the mechanism of this earthquake, damage situation, potential of landslides, building damages, health and safety issues, and relief goods distribution.
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English presentations from this symposium are available below:
- The newly-former NEPSA, the Nepal Students Association of Tohoku University also introduced some information about the situation in Nepal, and their fundraising and other activities. You can see the English presentation by their student Representative Sagar Bhandari here.
- Damage Assessement from Prof. Eric Mas
- Medical and Public Health from Prof. Shinichi Egawa
- From May 22, the Director of IRIDeS, Professor Imamura, in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will visit Nepal in order to assess the current situation and the urgent initiatives that maybe carried out in the very near future.
Other information sources for reference are listed below.
International organizations
- UN Nepal Information Platform
- OCHA, Nepal Earthquake 2015
- reliefweb
- USGS, PAGER-Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response
- EC, COPERNICUS:EMSR125:Earthquake in Nepal
- GDACS(The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System)
- unitar
- Shelter Cluster
- Humanitarian Response (by OCHA)
Domestic Information in Nepal
- National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET)
- Government of Nepal
- Embassy of Japan in Nepal
- Embassy of Nepal, Tokyo