earthquakes

Technology and tectonics

What recent earthquakes in Burma and Nepal reveal about our fragile humanitarian systems, and how to fix them

Structural problems

Strict building codes, emergency preparedness and proper land use to make public buildings safer

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Alarm in Nepal after Tibet quake

The Xigatse earthquake coincided with anniversaries of 1934 and 2015, and were reminders to be better prepared

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Lessons still not learnt

Photos: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESEarthquakes are inevitable in Nepal. It is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And ‘when’ was 2:28PM on...

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After the deluge in Nepal

Sambhu Kumar Mandal is from Sitamarhi in Bihar. Like hundreds of other migrant workers from India, they have been in Nepal working...

Disasters in Nepal come in waves

Nepal sits upon a pyramid of problems: poverty, inequality, exclusion, domestic violence, social injustice, lack of food ... the list is long.On top...

Be prepared

Nepal’s National Earthquake Safety Day commemorates 15 January 1934, the day when a magnitude 8.3 quake epicentred in Okhaldhunga, killed at least...

The courage and endurance of the Langtangpa

Five years ago, I was in the Langtang Valley with my parents at the moment when the earth shook. The earthquake released a massive,...

Good as old after two earthquakes

Patan’s historic temple is not just being rebuilt, but restored to its pre-1934 look

Life in the time of tornadoes

This is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28 people...