Understanding Risk Perception of communities is an important aspect for developing risk reduction concepts and programs. This helps authorities, communities and individua [...]

The Gorkha Earthquake of M7.8 hit Nepal on April 25, 2015. The epicenter of this earthquake was in Gorkha, 80 km northwest of Kathmandu Valley. The main shock was followe [...]

Main source of earthquake risk in the developing countries are absence of earthquake resistance elements in buildings and low level of awareness despite the fact that the [...]

Typical Reinforced Concrete (RC) Frame buildings with brick masonry infill are dominantly emerging building typology in the urban areas of Nepal. However, seismic vulnera [...]

It is a known fact that heavy loss of life and properties during earthquakes is mainly due to weak buildings and lack of preparedness resulting from the low awareness lev [...]

Effective implementation of Earthquake Risk Reduction programs requires positive risk perception by the key stakeholders. Risk perception is the internalization of knowle [...]

The building code of Nepal was prepared in 1994 but it was implemented in 2001 in one of the municipality first, which clearly marked a sign on the bottom- up approach on [...]

Useful technology and knowledge for disaster reduction is conceptualized in "implementation technology". It consists of three elements "implementation oriented technology [...]

Kathmandu Valley is the most at-risk city in the world in terms of potential loss of life due to earthquakes. Studies have estimated large number of casualties and great [...]

Earthquake risk evaluation is the first step for realistic and effective planning and implementation of earthquake risk reduction as well as preparedness initiatives as i [...]