Strict building codes, emergency preparedness and proper land use to make public buildings safer
Photos: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESEarthquakes are inevitable in Nepal. It is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And ‘when’ was 2:28PM on 15…
Sodasha Higher Secondary School in western Nepal is undergoing retrofitting as an earthquake preparedness model for future quakes in the region.…
Pic: BIKRAM RAISuresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when there…
Nepal’s hospitals have not even recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be ready for the Next Big One
Photo: BIKRAM RAIFour years later, Central Nepal is still being rocked by aftershocks of 2015. That peculiar earthquake shook everything to the…
Preparing western Nepal for a future megaquake is now even more urgent than reconstruction in areas hit by the 2015 disasterYubaraj…
