7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
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Some links and photos:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/25/nepal-eart...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NEPAL_EA...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/25/asia/nepal-earthquak...
Photos: http://www.foxnews.com/world/slideshow/2015/04/25/...
Looks like an avalanche hit the area betwween the ice fields and Everest Base Camp sweeping some of the base camp tents away.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/25/nepal-eart...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NEPAL_EA...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/25/asia/nepal-earthquak...
Photos: http://www.foxnews.com/world/slideshow/2015/04/25/...
Looks like an avalanche hit the area betwween the ice fields and Everest Base Camp sweeping some of the base camp tents away.
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RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
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RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/tectonic/im...
Very, very sobering list of recent bad earthquakes across the region here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/u...
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
"It is imperative Cunth doesn't get his hands on those codes."
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
You are probably thinking of nearby Bangladesh, which also felt this earthquake.
Many of the buildings in the Nepalese cities were destroyed in the 1934 earthquake, so a lot of building has occurred since then. But it is a very poor country which still depends on agriculture, and now tourism. The built environment is of poor quality, mostly unreinforced masonry and wood, not at all well tied together.
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
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One of the buildings appeared to be a large concrete slab system of some type in which the columns or bearing walls had buckled away.
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RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
Here's a quote from a news article:
Outside of the oldest neighborhoods, many in Kathmandu were surprised by how few modern structures collapsed in the quake.
The city is largely a collection of small, poorly constructed brick apartment buildings.
While aid workers cautioned that many buildings could have sustained serious structural damage,
it was also clear that the death toll would have been far higher had more buildings caved in.
So some "modern" buildings there did OK, which is good news in that it suggests our more modern ways of creating seismic resisting buildings has validity.
(that of course is supposing that these modern buildings they are referring to have specific seismic detailing inherent in them).
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RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/26/nightmare-...
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
The Indian plate is bending down under the original Himalayan plate and Tibet plateau - which causes the mountains to rise of course, but do they know much of a bump over what area this earthquake represents in physical movement?
RE: 7.8 Quake in Nepal Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMkRPWv4M8Y
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