Facts about Earthquake in Nepal: Such A Greatest Disaster That Never Happened

Earthquake in Nepal: – Devastating earthquake in 2015 has shaken and shaded all Nepalese hearts with fear and spoilt. The disastrous earthquake ruined many houses and destroyed many relatives and damaged many life dreams.

There are many Nepalese who have a dream to invest in the new project in the coming year, but the drastic arrival of the earthquake has made their project and dream wet with sadness and badness.

Nepalese hearts and minds become moveable, and people are not able to control their bodies even for six months due to the arrival of a small earthquake that shakes the ground and land. Meanwhile, people used to look afraid and harass waiting for large hands for help, searching for food, and wishing to come to anyone with shelter and food to eat.

People all come on the road even belong from rich to poor due to gun-control and the persistent arrival of an earthquake. Nepalese hearts and bodies have shrunk full of loss and fear. They all are busy praying for God’s for the blessing to go and even those who do not believe in God seems busy paying God saying this is your mercy and compassion to make arrive and stop. You are the world creator and works runner. You are almighty and prudent, impudent and peak power.

No one will be greater than you, you have the top position and stands to control all the tiny to large substance constellations in your hands. The leaves can only shake and blow with your wish. Fearlessly, people are busy contacting their relatives and knowing their condition.

This disastrous earthquake has made many handicapped while some become lame and blind. Many have lost their father, and mothers and some have lost their houses. It’s not things to worry about if there is damage to the house or l= non-living things but those who have made recently their home from borrowing the load by banks and creditors, fall from the sky without any safety as they feel.

The earthquake dismissed the way blockade of the roads and in many land places, there go landslides that suffocated the homes and people moving on the way. Earthquake is not friends and it is the largest enemy which has trod many homes thrash and many dead bodies are not even picked out from the pitted and fallen building.

With the matter of admiration, it is the real events s get looked in earthquake occurrence after some time, that the pour best neighbor country India becomes the first country to help and feed the c people of Nepal to m reduce their pain and spray the drops of happiness on everyone face.

Later on, many countries funded their optimistic signal to help the Nepalese from their hands. Some countries promise to help with money while some make their announced food and shelter. In terms, there are many actors directors, social workers, and social reformers who look active to help and serve the bag of food and plates of hope to them.

Many people from backward to remotes who were impacted by earthquake damage are promised to help from the government side. Nepalese actors become active from their side to control more damage and more people to save put from their s endeavor.

In those series, many government employees and reputed businesses m= man also seem busy helping the victims from their hands and trying. Many businesses have announced a huge amount of money to help the victims.

For as Forbes businessman Binod Chaudhary announced 20 million dollars for the construction of homes for the victims whereas another known- resident billionaire Upendra Mahato has announced 10 million dollars for the victim’s betterment. Let’s know the following more fact, history, and histogram of the earthquake that occurred suddenly in 2015.

History of the earthquake in Nepal:

Ancestors and adults used to say about the earthquake that come in Nepal over the gap of 70 and 80 years. The greatest earthquake only comes in Nepal at the gap of the large periods and normally the feeling of earthquake vibration is often to feel after the occurrence in the neighboring country.

But in the context of Nepal, the earthquake has made the houses lost to the people and exhaustively to the country due to losses of living as well as non-living things. Earthquakes in Nepal occurred in 2045 B.S . which had taken thousands of lives due to, at ancient times, due to less density of people.

And Nepal had not developed that has marked a positive effect on the p countrymen and economic country. But Nepal is always listed as an underdeveloped country and is now listed as a developing country. The next disastrous earthquake arrived in 1990 B.S. which was also very horrendous and more fearful than this.

That earthquake also ruined and destroyed much life breaking many homes and habitats. In 1990 many people have obliged to spend life on uncovered roofs and open sky due to the poor economic condition of the country. 1990 was also the dark year of Nepal which made the countrymen obliged to live in the dark and open sky.

A person has no option to eat or go to any place because the whole country was suffering from the bad effect and damages of earthquakes. The whole country was the victim and due to being an underdeveloped country, it had struggled and strive with a strong mentality to come out of all the damages.

but slowly country has grown up like a tree. In the race of development, again the dark day of the whole Nepalese 2015 April 12 makes shaken and threaded and needed to every one painful desire made burst the wish and hopes in wave and rave of earthquake movement.

Many earthquakes expert have given their views on the cause of earthquakes by the high density of Kathmandu. It’s also one of the reasons which are foolish if hide that the broken home was the ancient one and made from clay and weak bricks of a thin layer.

So, there create uncountable losses and many people have spent and lost their lives and relatives in those pestilences and epidemic events that occurred after the earthquake in 2015.

The small jerking of earthquakes continuous their coming and arrival for up to one year and Nepalese are obliged to stay in fear, many Nepalese even not slept for six months in their homes and many Nepalese passed the many nights under the open sky whose houses has ruined in the earthquake. The government has promised to help and provided loans to them that have given some water to the thirsty lip.

‘Great Earthquake 1990 BS’?

At about 2 p.m. on May 2, 1990, during the reign of Rana Prime Minister Juddha Shumsher, a powerful earthquake hit Nepal causing horrible loss of life and property particularly in Kathmandu valley.

Across the country, it caused about 34 lakhs houses to collapse and left 16,875 people dead and 3319 people injured. The Prime Minister set up a relief fund to help the victims of the disaster. He managed to bring construction materials and clothes from abroad and helped the victims. He also contributed Rs. 4 lakhs personally to help with the rehabilitation.

Date of its occurrence:

On 25 April 2015, Saturday, at 11:56 (Nepalese time ), drastically, a fast signal and jerking give shaken and the body becomes unbalanced, some fell from the table and chairs, and some become suffocated due to falling doors and terrace. It was the day which was one of the terrible days that watt all the Nepalese and put tears in their eyes. People become hopeless and frustrated,

They feel like death is in front of their eyes. The person used to look to praying God to help and save them. But the time and the jerking have taken many lives in the very short existence of 26 seconds. About 368 were not found due to terraces falling and sling on the land.

Of them, about 108 were foreigners and 260 were Nepalese who were not come out and recognized on the public list by their figures founds and the body found. The earthquake was measured at 7.6 magnitude rector by the Nepalese euro and 7.9 by an American organization that is USGS international earthquake measuring center.

The main center of occurrence:

Barak, District of Gorkha was the first center on April 25, 2015, when it comes in high current and jerking for the first time. Those devastating earthquakes have hardly and badly impacted about 14 districts and at least the whole of Nepalese.

It is measured that it came from under 15 kilometers( 9 miles) deep under the ground and land. It has affected human damage in about 31 districts and made people weep for a long time and many have even gotten vibrated if remind of those black days and mourning days.

A number of the dead person in the earthquake:

It is counted a total of 8622 were killed in the earthquake and about 18 thousand become seriously injured many died and many got a new life. Sindhupalchok was the first district where the majority of a person has lost their lives and about 3424 was the counting of dead people.

Historical and architectural damages:

Many historical properties like Dharahara, Basantpur Durbar square, Bhaktapur Durbar square, Swoyambhunath, Bungamati, Changunaryan temple Patan Durbar square, and much national heritage have been affected badly and have great damage and scale thrash.

Moreover, world heritage sites like Pashupatinath, Swoyambhu, and others are also badly got damaged. Near Pashupatinath, the large crowd and people felt safe and saved after reaching God’s palace, and due to so, in Pashupatinath areas, no more damage, and people were killed due to the Pashupatinath mercy and compassion.

Outside the valley, Gorkha Durbar square, Nuwakot Durbar square was also badly destroyed due to its jerking, shaking, and flakes.

Re-arrival of the earthquake:

On May 12 after seventeen days of passes, it again appears drastically and again it has invited much damaged and destroyed many lives and homes mostly. People again become afraid and pass their night and day in fear mode. It has again sprayed the and done the rainfall of poison and fearful environment and creation of such fear earthquake have vibrated many mind and heart.

Destroyed and impacted offices and organization numbers:

school Destroyed: 19,352
mansion Destroyed: 7,57,234( 4,90,692 full and 2,66,542 partially)
governmental offices Destroyed 3032(761 fully 2271 partially)
health organizations Destroyed: 316 ( 306 governmental, 10 private), partially 624( 617 governmental, 7 private)
Valley destroyed houses: 18364
traditional heritage Destroyed:581

In these series and incidents, many countries forward their helpful hands to decrease the pain and traumatic condition of Nepalese . as humans, it is also our duty and religion to help human beings human. Humans should be treated equally and we all are human and we are all one. Let’s talk about the helping country and liberation doors:

Helping country: 34
Foreign helping organization come to Nepal: 76
Foreigner helpers: 4521
International medical team; 107 including 2321 doctors
International health troops and conglomerate: 87
Treatment was done to 103686 victims
Alive rescued from the terrace suffocation: 16
Earthquake directly influenced people: 80 Lakhs

All above are some of the basic and real facts taken from eth national department and released data.

There are various comments about earthquakes after they pass. Someone is saying that the height of Kathmandu valley has gone up about 1 meter. similarly, the size of Nagarkot has also uplifted and increased by about 1.15 meters and has transferred about 1.82 meters to the south sides.

Causes of the earthquake in Nepal:

Mostly Kathmandu is known as one of et danger areas in the context of the earthquake effect because of the people and lands in not equal which gives disturbance and conflicts in balancing. Moreover, Kathmandu valley is also highly populated and has a high density which creates heavy loss after any jerking may be minor but it gives a great loss of output. Nepal is not treated as the most dangerous zone subject to earthquakes but even though it has high influences.

According to earthquake difficulties and dangers, Nepal is in the 11^th position which also seems not so large tension. And in the list of towns, Kathmandu is the number one position due to its unequal land. The dis-matched and managed land becomes unbalanced and transferred due to its shaking effect.

Earthquake is dangerous even but it has big and small effect which can be only shown after their existence. Due to the collision of the Indian plate and Tibetan plate, there is an increment of earthquake possibility. For reconstructing the country, with the motives to this, on 25 June 2015, the Nepal government called the donator’s summit and meet.

Disaster

A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society. It disrupts progress and destroys the hard-earned fruits of painstaking developmental efforts, often pushing nations, in the quest for progress, back by several decades. It causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses. Such losses may exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its resources.

Causes of Disasters

Disaster is quite often sudden, unpredicted, and unexpected. It can be natural or man-made. It is mostly caused by natural forces like earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, floods, avalanches, storms, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, etc. Human activities have nothing or very less to do with disasters caused by internal forces. But human activities are directly or indirectly responsible to some extent for a landslide, floods, epidemics, etc.

However, some disasters are caused by human beings intentionally or unintentionally. Disasters caused by human beings unintentionally can also be called accidents. Wildfires, wars, and terrorist acts are some examples of intentionally caused human disasters.

Deforestation, environmental degradation, haphazard development, uncontrolled population growth, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), etc are some of the causes of human-made disasters. Whatever the causes or forms of the disaster, it causes tremendous pain, hardship, suffering, deaths, injuries, destruction, and environmental degradation. Some disasters can be so huge in scale that it will be very difficult to be tackled by the affected community alone.

Disaster Prevention

There is a saying, “Prevention is better than cure.” Preventive measures can avoid man-made disasters and accidents, and minimize damages from natural disasters. If we take preventive measures and keep ourselves prepared we can minimize damages.

Disaster doesn’t come by knocking on the door. It can occur anytime on any scale. However, there are certain indicators and trends. We should follow them and act accordingly. It is important to keep ourselves prepared at least for the most potential disasters like earthquakes, cyclones, floods, landslides, fires, storms, epidemics, terrorist acts, etc.

We should keep ourselves informed, and keep essential safety items and equipment ready for such eventualities. We should establish weather stations and develop a mechanism for the timely dissemination of information on weather conditions. If the weather is bad, we should quickly move to safe places. Fire-fighting and earthquake safety drills should be practiced regularly. Awareness programs, forethought, and pre-planning can reduce the damage of disasters.

Afforestation programs can help prevent landslides, floods, and air pollution. We should protect, preserve and promote the environment We should use a road, fire, electricity, equipment, and sensitive devices with much care. Production of weapons of mass destruction should be stopped.

Facts About Earthquake

The movement or vibration of the earth’s surface is known as an earthquake. When an earthquake takes place the surface of the earth either moves or vibrates horizontally or vertically. The up-and-down movement of the surface is called the vertical quake and the horizontal movement. is known as a horizontal quake.

The point of origin of the movement which is below the earth’s surface is known as the hypocenter and the point where the movement first strikes which is on the surface of the earth is known a$ the epicenter. This is the point from where the wave spreads the effect to every dimension.

The instrument which measures the intensity, origin, place, and magnitude is called a seismograph. When the earthquake occurs graphs are drawn on its graph paper and by analyzing such graphs which are drawn; information is collected about the earthquake.

The surface of the earth is divided into many parts which are known as the continental plates. When the liquid and the semi-liquid particles below the earth’s surface move, an effector movement is felt in the areas where two plates meet.

When rocks turn, break, and cripple, an earthquake takes place. In this way, the volcano erupts in these areas and when liquid from below the surface turns to vapor, these vapors hold the potential for the eruption of a volcano and can even cause an earthquake by pushing the surface of the earth creating a movement. So, an eruption of a volcano and earthquake frequently takes place in the areas where two plates meet.

The areas around the Pacific Ocean which are the rocky mountain range, Andes mountain range, and East Asia, along with the Asian Himalayas, Hindukush, and Suleiman mountain range, Iran, Turkey, and the Alps Mountains in Europe frequently suffer from earthquakes.

Due to the earthquake, there is huge damage to property and the lives of people. There is the destruction of houses, roads, bridges, industries, etc and along with these kinds of huge destruction, it can push the lives of people in difficult situations and can even spread epidemic diseases and famine. In this way, earthquake, causes faults in the earth’s surface and causes rising and submerging of the land, floods aria landslides, tsunami, storms, etc.

In the areas where an earthquake is felt quite frequently, special attention should be given to protect ourselves from such natural calamities. There is a strong need for preparation from the level of government and exercises related to the methods of protection in the occurrence of such a disaster should be done in the schools.

For example,
– Not to panic and run during an earthquake. Stay under the tables.
– Come out of the house when the tremor resides.
– Do not keep things that could fall during quakes.
– Help neighbors.
– Inform governmental or non-governmental organizations of rescue.

10 Key Facts about Earthquakes in Nepal

UPDATED 2016, 22 May, 9:30 A.m. Friday —

A 7.8-magnitude quake struck Nepal on Saturday, April 25, 2015, flattening large parts of Kathmandu valley and causing disasters and devastation across the impoverished Himalayan region.

We are enlisted here some of the major key facts about the Earthquake in Nepal.

More than 9,200 people die in Nepal alone.
More than 25,000 people have been injured across the country of Nepal.
18 climbers died at Mt. Everest base camp when the quake sparked an avalanche.
More than 75 people were killed in India, the neighboring country of Nepal.
The United Nations estimates that There are more than 8 million people have been affected by this natural disaster.
It is said that more than 2.8 million Nepali were displaced, according to the world body.
United Nations estimated that more than 3.5 million people are in the need of food assistance.
And UNICEF estimates that 1.7 million children live in the worst-hit areas.
The Nepal Red Cross Society said it had almost exhausted its relief stocks which were sufficient for 19,000 families.
Nepal’s government said 130,033 houses had been destroyed, according to the UN.

There is the Nepal Centre for Disaster Management.

Earthquake Safety Measures

Before an Earthquake in Nepal

Make sure you have a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit, a battery-powered radio, a flashlight, and extra batteries at home.
Learn first aid.
Learn how to turn off the gas, water, and electricity.
Make up a plan of where to meet your family after an earthquake.
Don’t leave heavy objects on shelves (they’ll fall during a quake).
Anchor heavy furniture, cupboards, and appliances to the walls or floor.
Learn the earthquake plan at your school or workplace.

During an Earthquake in Nepal

– Stay calm! If you’re indoors, stay inside. If you’re outside, stay outside.

If you’re indoors, stand against a wall near the center of the building, stand in a doorway, or crawl under
heavy furniture (a desk or table).
Stay away from windows and outside doors.
If you’re outdoors, stay in the open away from power lines or anything that might fall. Stay away from buildings (stuff might fall off the building or the building could fall on you).

Don’t use matches, candles, or any flame. Broken gas lines and fire don’t mix.
If you’re in a car, stop the car and stay inside the car until the earthquake stops.
Don’t use elevators (they’ll probably get stuck anyway).

After an Earthquake in Nepal

Check yourself and others for injuries. Provide first aid for anyone who needs it.
Check water, gas, and electric lines for damage. If any are damaged, shut off the valves. Check for the smell of gas. If you smell it, open all the windows and doors, leave immediately, and report it to the authorities (use
someone else’s phone).
Turn on the radio. Don’t use the phone unless it’s an emergency.
Stay out of damaged buildings.
Be careful around broken glass and debris. Wear boots or sturdy shoes to keep from cutting your feet.
Be careful of chimneys (they may fall on you).

Stay away from beaches. Tsunamis and seiches sometimes hit after the ground has stopped shaking.
Stay away from damaged areas.
If you’re at school or work, follow the emergency plan or the instructions of
the person in charge.
Expect aftershocks.