भिडियो हेर्न तलको बक्स भित्र क्लिक गर्नुहोस

The type of earthquake that hit Nepal last week is a periodic event in the country: the last was in 1934. For years, the international community understood another big quake was due in Kathmandu. The disaster is that we have not prepared enough for a predictable event. In a world of increased urban densification, speedily expanding informal settlements and development that outstrips a government's ability to implement standards, it is badly designed and constructed complexes, not earthquakes, which are the real catastrophe.

In many cases, the dash of urbanisation has produced some of the most dangerous built environments: multi-storey buildings, over-reliance on cement and a loss of knowledge that protected prior generations. The pressure to meet the needs of growing populations, along with improperly implemented building restrictions, can lead to deadly weakness. This was exhibited in China in 08 when the Sichuan earthquake destroyed over 7, 500 recent but inadequately designed schools, killing thousands of schoolchildren.

Around three-quarters of all deaths in earthquakes are due to building collapse. Low-cost and relaxed buildings are most likely to get corrupted, interpretation that earthquakes disproportionately impact the poorest in the community, and usually drop them off even not as good. The technology and skills to practically eliminate this scale of fatality are available. Yet they can be not reaching the people who require them most. Earthquakes are generally not simply a "natural" catastrophe: they reflect a thankfully crisis.