Nepal Gorkha Earthquake
Impacts
Magnitude and Faluting
Causes
After impacts
25th April 2015
7.8 magnitude
Slip along major frontal thrust fault in collision zone
Indo-Australian plate meets Eurasian plate
seismic waves amplified as they pass through the soft sediment and high water content land due to prehistoric lakes.
Avalanches on mountains like Mount Everest
Social
Economic
Political
Politically unstable before quake
Nepal received emergency aid from other countries to help rebuild
Quake made the progress towards political peace backfire
international aid caused tension with India as they were accused of trying to use its humanitarian aid as a way of self promotion
8800 fatalities
22,000 injured
Everest avalanche killed 20 climbers
2.8 million displaced from Kathmandu valley
473,000 houses destroyed
1 million required food assistance
lower caste Tibeto Burman hardest hit as they live the highest areas in the Himalayas
21,000 landslides
areas difficult to get aid to
women were discriminated against as the aid was controlled by men
UNESCO world heritage sights destroyed
one of the poorest countries in the world
cost to the national economy at $10 billion
Everest shut for 2015 season
Asian development bank provided $200 million for reconstruction
levels of debt increased
planting season was near so earthquake disrupted food security
only 8km deep
Avalanche in Langtang valley killed 250
Mount Everest avalanche killed 20 people
Flooding
UNESCO sites destroyed
Collison at plate boundary
Convergent plate boundary
Build up of pressure
Indian plate moving north at 45mm a year
Fault line created
Pressure built up which then has to release somehow