Rebuilding After an Earthquake in Nepal

In April 2015, Nepal experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.

In the reconstruction effort that followed, notable differences in the safety of rebuilt homes and businesses emerged. 

In this episode of Geoversity podcast, we discuss recent research that looks into the factors influencing these varied safety outcomes.

Why did some build safe houses, while others did not?

That's the question posed by researchers Aditya Pradana Ganda Saputra, Nina Schwarz and Eefje Hendriks in their paper, Identifying factors influencing housing safety in post-earthquake reconstruction by households in Nepal.

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