Building back better (and quicker)
Lessons for Jajarkot from the swift reconstruction following the Bara-Parsa tornado disaster in 2019
reconstruction
In a disastrous state
2015 was just a warning, a mega-quake is overdue in western Nepal, and we better start preparing for it
Concrete planning
On 25 April 2015 at exactly 11:56, the ground beneath Kathmandu Valley started shaking. Houses built on the soft alluvium of the...
Rebuilding resilience 7 years later
Now that we are wrapping up reconstruction after 2015, we need to focus on building a disaster resilient Nepal
Kathmandu’s temple restoration after 1934 quake
The 8.3M earthquake that struck at 2:28PM on 15 January 1934 was the last major quake to hit Kathmandu before the 2015 Gorkha earthquake....
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...
Langtang copes with quake and Covid
Six years after deadly avalanche, survivors endure the Covid-induced collapse of tourism
Rebuilding Kathmandu after the 1934 quake
The way Nepal’s Rana rulers went about rebuilding Kathmandu after the mega-earthquake on 15 January 1934 has important lessons for urban planning after 2015...
Miracle Boy, six years after Nepal quake
Baby survived being buried under the rubble for 22 hours, but his family still struggles to cope
Lessons not learned from 2015
The clock is ticking on the next Big One, but most schools are not prepared for disasters
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