Background and reflections on Gorkha earthquake of April 25, 2015

Guilan Liang () and Niandong Zhou ()

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2016, vol. 81, issue 2, 1385-1392

Abstract: Earthquakes are one of the most disastrous natural disasters and can cause large-scale loss of life and property. Earthquakes can even destroy the whole cities. Earthquakes have secondary hazards including aftershock, landslide, liquefaction, tsunami and avalanche. And sometimes the earthquake-induced secondary effects are more dangerous than the quake itself. On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. More than 8800 people were killed and 23,000 were injured. About 299,588 country’s homes were destroyed and 269,107 were damaged. The earthquake is destructive for the Nepal’s economy and social structure. This paper mainly introduces this catastrophe, geological features, secondary hazards and some of the related emergency responses. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Keywords: Nepal earthquake; Geological features; Earthquake damage; Reflections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-2127-6

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