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GeoHazards Society team with GeoHazards International in Nepal in the aftermath of 2015 earthquake

Regional Projects

The South Asian region especially the Indian sub-continent is highly  vulnerable to multiple hazards. The region is highly vulnerable to  various natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, landslides,  thunderstorms, tsunami, drought, etc. On the other hand, the region is  also susceptible to a number of human-induced hazards. With Climate  Change at its peak, the region continues to suffer the loss of life and  property almost every year.

The Indian Plate Boundary has a prominent system of mountains running  for thousands of kilometers which is known as the Himalayas. The entire  region from Afghanistan till Myanmar is highly susceptible to a number  of hazards. These hazards are putting the Himalayan nations of Nepal and  Bhutan also at potential risk. 

GeoHazards Society (GHS) along with its global partner GeoHazards  International (GHI) is committed to working towards reducing risk due to  such hazards in the region and has been supporting various agencies  both government and international in the region.


Myanmar

GeoHazards International along with GeoHazards Society assisted  UNHABITAT in Myanmar in the Non-Structural Risk Assessment of two major  regional hospitals in Yangon and Mandalay. 

As part of the project, a team of GHS and GHI experts visited the  hospitals and conducted a detailed assessment of critical facilities of  both the hospitals and submitted a report of findings and solutions to  UNHABITAT and presented the findings in fact-finding workshops with both  the hospitals and members of the ministry of health, Govt of Myanmar.


Nepal

GHI has been working with Nepal for over two decades and was one of  the first organizations to ever develop a scenario for an earthquake and  landslide hazards to assist the government plan for the future course  of action. 


Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment

Following the devastating earthquake of 2015, members of GHI  participated in a study organized by EERI to study the impact of the  earthquake on hospitals.


Development of Earthquake Scenario

In the wake of the 2015 Nepal earthquake, GHI assisted Nepal in a  project named PAHAL. GHI helped in creating an earthquake scenario for  the far western part of Nepal bordering India and China. The GHI team  was assisted by members of GHS in this two-year long process which  resulted in the development of earthquake scenarios for the Mid-West and Far-West region of Nepal wherein detail of effects  of an earthquake and landslides on various critical infrastructure and  the key role of the line departments and facilities were assessed. 


Bhutan

Since 1937, Bhutan has experienced 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or  larger, including the most recent damaging earthquakes in 2009 and 2011.  The last two events resulted in damages to 153 schools and an estimated  loss of more than 650 million Ngultrums in the education sector alone.  The Mongar earthquake of September 21, 2009, fortunately, fell on a  religious holiday, and children were not in schools during the  earthquake. Similarly, the Sikkim earthquake on 18 September 2011  occurred on a Sunday evening, and children were not present in schools. 


National Action Plan for Bhutan:

During a partnership initiative of GHI and GFDRR, GHI and GHS collaborated and helped the Government of Bhutan to formulate the National Action Plan for Earthquake Safety of Health Facilities & National Action Plan for School Earthquake Safety.  

GHI along with GHS also helped in formulating the country’s first  Non-structural risk (Falling Hazards) mitigation manual for schools in  collaboration with the Department of Disaster Management and the  Department of Education, Royal Govt of Bhutan. The manual helps schools  identify potential non-structural (falling hazards) within school and  outside. The manual also guides them with simple mitigation solutions  that they can adapt to reduce non-structural risks. s. The manual is  being used by the education department and multiple agencies working in  the field of education in the region. Click here to view the manual.


GHS also assisted GHI in a series of seismic risk assessment of three  hospitals in Bhutan. As part of the project a comprehensive disaster  preparedness plan for the Jigme Dorjee Wangchuk, National Referral  Hospital in Thimpu was prepared followed by a tabletop exercise where  the hospital administration discussed, in brief of their response to a  hypothetical disaster scenario. On finalizing the plan a mass  preparedness drill was organized at the hospital to understand the  preparedness level of the hospital to respond to a disaster scenario.


Annual Bhutan School Preparedness Drill 2013

GeoHazards Society (GHS) along with GeoHazards International  partnered with the Royal Government of Bhutan to organize a Mass  Preparedness Drill in All Schools of Bhutan. On 20th September at 10:15  am all schools of Bhutan participated in an Earthquake Preparedness  drill to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the Mongar earthquake  (2009). This was the first of its kind drill in the world where all  schools of the entire nation participated. GHS provided technical  support to the event which was administered by the Ministry of Education  and Department of Disaster Management of Bhutan and Geohazards staff  with financial assistance from the Embassy of the Czech Republic in New  Delhi. 


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