Earthquake Security Day is being observed with awareness programs in Nepal today. Different government and non government organizations have organized awareness programs on earthquake security in the capital city Kathmandu.
Home Ministry, National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET) Nepal and Lalitpur sub metropolitan city in association with other organizations have organized awareness camp and demonstration on earthquake security in Lalitpur sub-metropolitan city venue. A joint awareness rally was staged in the capital city today.
The Earthquake that took place on 16 January 1934 had resulted into deadly human and physical loss in Kathmandu valley.
According to the geologists, the Kathmandu valley may confront the earthquake catastrophe any time of the upcoming decades as the valley has swollen to one and a half million people and if the rate remains same it will double in size within a decade.
An assessment says, if there would be the eruption of the earthquake in the scale similar to that of 1934, the entire water system, sewer system, telephone system, and electric power system would be disabled, six in ten buildings would be seriously damaged and the homeless would number somewhere around seven hundred thousand.
Likewise, the deaths would number somewhere around forty thousand and injuries would number in the hundreds of thousands. The hospital bed would be inadequate. The airport is almost surrounded by land subject to liquefaction which would seriously hamper the arrival of outside aid.
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