Earthquake in Nepal 25 April 2015 M7.7 to M8.0

Research team S. Brink, J. Anhorn, B. Khazai, and T. Girard with local interviever at Tudikhel Shelter Site (Foto: S. Brink, KIT).

In June, a team of CEDIM researchers analyzed the impacts of the earthquake in Nepal on April 25 in a two-week field mission. The main focus of the field mission was shelter after the earthquake. With a survey on household-level, the researchers investigated vulnerability to being displaced, information needs and decision processes to seek shelter. During their field mission, the CEDIM team with Dr. Bijan Khazai, Dr. Susan A. Brink, and Trevor Girard from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT and Johannes Anhorn from the Southasia Institute, Heidelberg University, closely collaborated with their colleagues of the National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET) and of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute EERI.

Report on the findings the field mission:

link to the report

For more information also visit: https://www.eskp.de/en/cedim-field-mission-after-the-earthquake-in-nepal/ and this article (Status: May 2016).

CEDIM has been analyzing the earthquake and its impact since April 25^th. The results of the near-real-time analyses are published in several reports.