The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The city of Kolkata is one of the most urbanized and densely populated regions in the world and a major industrial and commercial hub of the eastern and northeastern region of India. In order to classify the seismic risk zones of Kolkata we used seismic hazard exposures on the vulnerability …
KATHMANDU, May 31: The National Seismological Center (NSC) recorded a 4.2-magnitude aftershock of Gorkha Earthquake at 1:54 pm on Sunday afternoon. The epicenter of the quake was Lamjung district. - See more at: http://www.myrepublica.com/society/item/21829-nsc-records-4-magntide-aftershock-in-lamjung.html#sthash.BD5ncmb2.dpuf
The government will invest Rs16 billion for the implementation of the third phase of the Mahakali Irrigation Project. The amount, which will be used for survey, design and cannel construction, comes from the $1 billion (Rs 102.4 billion) Indian line of credit. “Work on the survey has already begun,” said …
Kathmandu, June 1: The death toll from the devastating April 25 earthquake and subsequent powerful aftershocks has reached 8,699 as per the latest update made available by the Central Police News Room. Of the dead, 1,729 persons from the Kathmandu Valley were recorded to have lost their lives to the …
Improved agricultural productivity, especially by small and family farmers, leads to important gains in hunger and poverty reduction. High performers on that front in Africa met the MDG hunger target while those that made slower progress did not REUTERS The number of hungry people in the world has dropped to …
Rising Temperatures Could Reduce Their Volume By Up To 99%, Says New Study Glaciers in Nepal's Everest region could shrink at least 70% or even disappear entirely by the end of the century as a result of climate change, scientists warned on Wednesday . Researchers in Nepal, the Netherlands and …
In this study, we apply a glacier mass balance and ice redistribution model to examine the sensitivity of glaciers in the Everest region of Nepal to climate change. High resolution temperature and precipitation fields derived from gridded station data, and bias-corrected with independent station observations, are used to drive the …
KATHMANDU, MAY 27 - It has been a month since the devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the country last month. But, the country is continued to feel aftershocks since then. A total of 270 aftershocks over 4 Richter scale were recorded in a period of a …
The massive Mw = 7.8 earthquake which rocked the Nepal Himalaya on 25 April 2015 is the largest to have occurred in this region in the past 81 years. This event occurred by slip on a ~150 km long and 55 km wide, shallow dipping (~5) segment of the Main …
India warned about possibility of floods in Bihar, UP after artificial lake formed on Kali Gandaki River A river dammed up by a huge landslide in Nepal’s northwest has begun flowing again but the risks of flash floods are not over yet, the police said on Sunday. The landslide at …
Children in the village of Marming play around on the ruins of their former school that was destroyed during the 25 April earthquake on 17 May. Nepal is still reeling from the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes Thousands of people have fled to safety following a landslide in western Nepal …
An artificial pond has been created after the Kaligandaki river got clogged by landslides in Baisari, on the border of Bhagawati and Ramche VDCs of Myagdi since this morning. The land slip has already buried 26 houses in Besauri while dozen more settlements are at risk of being swept away. …
Eight thousand six hundred and fifty-four (8,654) people have died and twenty-two thousand and fifty-three (22,053) injured due to the earthquake. As per the count as of 4 pm today, of the total casualties, Kathmandu Valley accounted for 1,731 deaths, the eastern region 58, the central region 6,412, the western …
A sub-committee of the Parliament on Friday recommended immediate shifting of 60 high-risk settlements in Sindhupalchowk district. The sub-committee was deputed by the Parliament’s high-level Disaster Management, Monitoring and Directive Special Committee to visit Sindhupalchowk, one of the hardest hits districts in the recent earthquake and its aftershocks. It said …
Thousands of centuries-old homes could be demolished in Nepal's historic cities as the government begins the long process of tearing down buildings rendered unsafe by last month's 7.8 earthquake. More than 600 temples, statues and museums across the country were damaged in Nepal's deadliest earthquake on record, including Kathmandu's 200-foot …
A slew of hydro electric projects planned in Arunachal Pradesh have been denied forest clearance by the Environment ministry after a recent meeting. It is learnt that the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) denied the green nod to six hydro electric projects in the state at its meeting held on April …
A distinguished Geologist and earthquake expert, Prof G M Bhat today said that possibility of a 9.0 Mw earthquake in Kashmir Seismic Gap was a remote possibility but people should adopt all precautionary measures in advance to avoid deaths and destruction in such eventuality. He said this while delivering an …
The number of people killed in Nepal by two major earthquakes has surpassed 8,500, making the disaster the deadliest to hit the Himalayan country on record, as rescuers on Sunday searched for dozens of people still missing in remote villages. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, killing thousands …
The number of people killed in Nepal by two major earthquakes has surpassed 8,500, making the disaster the deadliest to hit the Himalayan country on record. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, killing thousands and demolishing more than half a million homes, most of them in rural areas …
The death toll from the April 25 quake in Nepal on Sunday topped 8,500, making the temblor the deadliest of all times for the Himalayan nation, triggering as many as 240 aftershocks and injuring around 20,000 people. The monster temblor in April and its aftershocks killed as many as 8,567 …
