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Nepal 2015 - Coggle Diagram
Nepal 2015
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Social impacts
Deaths/ injuries
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Over 22,000 people in Nepal were injured
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Displacement of people
More than 2.8 million people were displaced from Kathmandu valley (many were migrants from remote areas of Nepal)
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Increase in trafficking women and girls from the poorest families, who were homeless to South Asian brothels
Classes/ groups
Lower caste Tibeto-Burman were hardest hit as they lived in the higher slopes of the Himalayas (lots of landslides and difficult to send aid)
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Economic impacts
Damage
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Tourism sector badly hit, with Everest being closed for the 2015 climbing season
473,000 houses were destroyed or badly damaged
Aid
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Nepal's government, businesses and individuals lacked the capital reserves to cope with the scale of the damage
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Tectonic setting
Nepal is situated on the boundary of the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate, in a collision zone
As the plates grind against each other, pressure builds and is released in the form of earthquakes
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Political impacts
Political instability
Earthquake occurred following a period of instability, including assassinations and coups
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Aid
Received emergency aid for longer term reconstruction from a range of countries: ACs, EDCs and LIDCs
Indonesia sent assistance from its military, including personnel and aircraft
Aid from India caused international tensions as they were accused of trying to use the humanitarian aid as a way of self-promotion in the region
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