Discussion # 6

Adrineh Manasi
Oct 8, 2015
On April 25, 2015 Nepal experienced a 7.8 magnitude Earthquake. The
earthquake struck between Kathmandu which is the capital of the country
and the city of Pokhara near mount Everest. Nepal is located in the continent
of Asia near India and China. It is one of the disaster prone countries.
Earthquakes are not happening very often in this country, but if it happens, it
has a devastating impact of that area. A strong earthquake similar to this one
happened 80 years ago. Meeting of Indo-Australian plate and Eurasian plate
is the reason for the Nepal's earthquakes. Officials reported more than 7000
dead, 14000 injured and 1.2 million people without home in Nepal. Many
buildings collapsed. This country is a small country with a weak economy,
disasters like this are creating a huge problem for the people in that area. All
other countries have to help Nepal to recover from this earthquake. The
transportation ways are very difficult, even when help is arriving in that
country, the helpers have a hard time to distribute the supplies to people in
need. I think the scientists in the world, have to help those countries to find
out the dangers of such a hazards, so they can control the damage. If the
people that are living in this areas get warnings on time, they could evacuate
or prepare themselves better. They need to collect items in order to survive in
such a hard times and they should educate themselves how to behave to be
safer in situations like that.
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Edited by Adrineh Manasi on Oct 8 at 11:30pm
Kevin Ung
Oct 9, 2015
I agree, the people of Nepal should be educated on the know how's during an
earthquake and receive warnings on potential earthquakes. I also think that
scientists from other parts of the world should help educate the people of
Nepal, but that would require a lot of resources to provide the needed benefit
for the people of Nepal. Of course, scientists could donate their time and
forgo payment to help the less gifted. Although that can be done, it will not
lasts because those scientists would run out of resources themselves to help
the Nepal people.
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Adrineh Manasi
Oct 11, 2015

Hi Kevin, thank you for reading my article. I agree it is really hard for the
scientists to spend their own time and resources to help those countries. I
was thinking about the non profit organizations that are helping different
countries when they are in need, they could spend a little bit of their funds to
educate the people in those countries. But I like the fact that when a natural
disaster hits a country, all the other countries are sending supplies and
helpers to help those countries.
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Allen Tracy
Oct 11, 2015
I would agree that pre-emptive measures would probably be the only feasible
means of addressing the problems earthquakes bring to Nepal. Due to the
rural nature of the environment and the relatively poor government; it would
be near impossible to construct or renovate existing buildings which would be
better suited to handle the earthquakes.
Adrineh Manasi
Oct 11, 2015
I agree with you. Those countries have a different kind of government that
are not that much concerned about the safety of their own people that is why
they don't even educate them. I was thinking that maybe the other nonprofit
organizations could help to educate and prepare the people in those
countries.