On April 25, 2015 the country of Nepal and the surrounding countries of India, China, Bangladesh, and Bhutan experienced an earthquake with the magnitude of 7.8 (Kumar). The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest killing nineteen people. Another avalanche was triggered in Langtang Valley a reported two hundred and fifty people are missing. Aftershocks continued well there after one reaching as high as 6.7. The death toll has not reached well over 7,250 (Kumar). The number of injured is 14,122. The UN estimates well over three million people need food and other assistance. Thousands of people have fled the areas especially around Kathmandu fearing aftershocks or trying to get to family member 's homes in remote areas. At one point Nepal was one of the least urbanized countries in the world (NORMAN). They are now accelerating in the world of urbanization. Kathmandu and a few other neighboring cities many of buildings are somewhat structurally sound, the buildings are usually pagoda style and shikhara style (NORMAN). Many of the new buildings are well maintained, the older residential buildings and smaller temples have fallen into despair (NORMAN). Rural architecture is very plain, they are one or two stories. The houses are made of mud brick and a thatched roof. Village houses are located near river valleys or along ridge tops The first challenge that an Emergency Manager would face is dealing with all of the massive media coverage. Coverage that is being feed
What: In Nepal near Kathmandu there was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. It killed about 8,000 people and injured nearly 18,000 people. It affected 8 million
This land assessment will recommend which community would be the best and safest place to live. Hazard City is made of up of five communities. Riverside is a mobile home community with most of the current homes located upon the sandy soils of the floodplain. Downtown consists nearly of one-to-three story buildings constructed of unreinforced brick and masonry. Ralston contains mostly large wood-framed, single family, Victorian-style homes built in the late 1800's. Hickory Estates contains of single-family, multi-story, wood-frame homes that were all built before World War II. Walnut Heights is a planned, gated residential community of single-family homes founded in 1981.
Imagine if you had to restart your life, new shelter, new job, new lifestyle. Well locals or people in the Philippines had to restart their life when an earthquake with an magnitude of 7.1 hit the country and destroyed people’s lives. The earthquake had a devastating 7.1 magnitude. The earthquake hit the Philippines on October 15th, 2013. The likely culprit of the earthquake was the East Bohol Fault because the two tectonic plates were sliding against each other and the creates an earthquake. Sadly, earthquake killed more than 90 people. Ports, schools, and airports were damaged. A hospital collapsed then that lead to a killing of 18 people. Children were also injured at sports complexes because people rushed the exits when the the ground started to shake. Lastly, 5 people were killed in a landslide that was triggered from the earthquake. What really matters though is how people respond to the
Have you ever been in a deadly earthquake? In 2013, the people of the Philippines experienced one. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake that affected around 43,000 people with 2,211 aftershocks that ended up killing a total of 185 people. Earthquakes are known as one of the most dangerous natural disasters. This horrific event happened October 15th, 2013. The earthquake hit hardest in the central Philippines, it was reported to be caused by the East Bohol Fault. People act in a response to a natural disaster by gathering resources, spreading word, and government aid.
An earthquake is where two transform plate boundaries slide and creak the earth. This is what happened in the Philippines. Although it was in 2013 the people are still in need of help to get back to their daily lives. The Philippines earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1. This earthquake was gigantic, and it took down many buildings that were in its path. Lucky the children were not in school that day because of the Muslim holidays the earthquake caused the school to collaspe. If the children were in school, then it would have killed most of the kids.There were 2,100 aftershocks. The day of the quake was October 15, 2013. People respond to a natural disaster by gathering materials and donations, spreading the word, and the government's aid.
This showed when after each of their quakes both Nepal and Haiti had extremely high body counts in comparison to the size of the earthquakes that had
On 12th January 2010, at 1653hrs local time, Haiti was rocked by a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Reichter scale. The immediate event rocked a wide area with an epicenter near Lougane, approximately 16 miles from Haiti capital of Port Au Prince. Afterwards, shock waves spread in an area with radius of 50 miles were recorded (Farmer & Mukherjee, 2011). The Haiti government report estimates the total number of missing people and those whose bodies were discovered at above 300,000. In addition, more than 3 million people were displaced from their homes.
Getting a staff together to bring in useful information to plan for the release of the information to the news media is a great way to enhance communication to the public. The media will then get the information out to the public by ways of News releases, web sites, news conferences, newspapers and other social media (Hicks, 2012). The advantages of using these types of media are they quickly allows for the public to know what type of crisis has happened, and what kinds of precautions are being taken to ensure their safety. If there were to be any fatalities caused by the crisis event(s), these types of avenues also will give information on that. Some disadvantages can be unreliable technology of the citizens that will not allow for them to get access to the information that is being released by the media, such as no television, computer is not working properly, or they don’t received the local newspaper to be able to read it, etc.
Media partnership is another critical assumption that is used in an emergency situation. The media takes the responsibility of giving information to the public, as well as receiving information from them too. Thus, any emergency response team must work together with the media to give information that is particularly accurate and timely to avert situations that aggravate tension. Emergency managers must have an understanding of the needs and requirements of the media and the value that they come with in emergency response situations (Haddow & Haddow, 2013).
The particular initiative of my organisation that I will focus on is the earthquake recovery in Nepal. On 25 April 2015 a massive 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, affecting 8 million people across the country. Another 7.3 earthquake struck on May 12.
A Natural disaster can change everything in someone's life really fast. This is exactly what happened to people in the Philippines on October 14, 2013. The East Bohol fault caused an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2. This caused many families to be left homeless with nothing left & damaged roads and buildings. People respond in the wake of a natural disaster by gathering resources, spreading the word, and getting donations/ government aid.
Some citizens were unable to get to safety and the earthquake took many lives. Most of the houses and buildings were destroyed leaving the region with no electricity, no clean and running water and no telephone communication. There was a great cost to rebuild all the houses and buildings in the affected area. Due to the lack of fresh produce being produced the farmers had nothing to sell. Meaning that families would have no source of financial income.
In the U.S. alone, the average annual cost to repair damage caused by earthquakes is $4.4 billion USD. The worldwide figure is much larger than this but unquantifiable due to poorer countries unable to accurately determine the amount of damage that occurred. Year after year the cost of damages barely fluctuates from these ridiculously high figures and money must be pumped into repairing the damage done. Although a lot is being learnt about earthquakes and the fact that humans are now normally able to be alerted in time to evacuate the area the earthquake will affect, there have been no breakthroughs into reducing the amount of damage earthquakes cause to buildings and infrastructures.
In May 2008, a memorial tragedy has carved our heart. More than 60,000 of our compatriots died in the Great Sichuan Earthquake. It was a once-in-a-year strong earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.8 measured in the Richter scale.
In Nepal, on 25th April 2015 Saturday at 11;56 local times, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Barpak in the historic district of Gorkha, about 76 km northwest of Kathmandu. Since the major shock till 7th June 2015, there were >300 aftershocks of magnitude >4, among them 6 are > 6 magnitudes (the biggest aftershock 6.8 magnitudes with an epicenter near Mt. Everest) This devastating earthquake damages infrastructures including historical sites, residential houses,