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M7.9 Earthquake in Nepal
- pixelm1 11y agoHere is a reliable nonprofit if you want to give to Nepal. http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/nepal-earthquake-relief-fund/ http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/nepal-earthquake-relief... Charity Navigator Rating http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11648 http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
- neokya 11y agoI created list of reliable organizations which are working on it and accepting donations https://github.com/chhantyal/PrayForNepal https://github.com/chhantyal/PrayForNepal
- praneshp 11y agoThanks, I shared this on facebook, and emailed to my friends. Please keep updating the repo.
- ptaipale 11y agoAppreciated, but just to nitpick, you might want to spell it "pray", not "prey". With "prey" there is the association "a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull." Which is a thing that always tends to come up at a time when lots of people are looking for ways to help.
- neokya 11y agoThanks. Already fixed it - that was my incorrect spelling rather than not understanding the meaning.
- perryh2 11y agoCNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/25/asia/nepal-earthquake-7-5-magnitude/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/25/asia/nepal-earthquake-7-5-magn...
- octatoan 11y agoIt's been felt all over India too.
- gokhan 11y agoIt's also mountaineering season there. Himalayan Experience just issued this[1]: "A massive earthquake has struck Nepal and a big avalanche came over Lhotse basecamp. Every people including our sherpas are safe on our side. Injured people from other camps start coming to ours for rescue which we are currently organizing. I am in Kathmandu at the moment and because of massive destructions, communications are difficult.I will send more news as soon as possible. Russel" [1] http://himalayanexperience.com http://himalayanexperience.com
- lordnacho 11y agoThis is awful for people there. I don't want to be rude about the 3rd world, but there are techniques for making structures that mitigate the effects of a quake. Of course there are impediments to implementing these things (economic, legal), but every time I hear about collapsed buildings and such I wonder how many people would have been saved. 7.9 is quite a lot though, and you'd expect deaths even in modern countries. The other sad thing I've noticed is the death toll. No idea if this is actually true, but it feels like with 3rd world disasters, the estimate just keeps climbing every day. In the West it's often the other way (people don't come back to life, it's just that the initial estimates come down, for instance Sep 11 went from 50K to 3K).
- userbinator 11y agoThe initial estimate of the magnitude certainly went down - the page now says 7.8.
- joosters 11y agoI hate the body counts in disaster news coverage. Why do we spend so long speculating on whether it is 10,000 dead or 15,000 dead? It doesn't matter to the vast majority of viewers, yet we get constant updates and speculation. It's just morbid. Even to those who have loved ones affected, the count is irrelevant. It's like we feel compelled to measure the awfulness of each disaster in order to rank and compare them. Please stop! (And if you put 'there are fears that the death toll could rise' in a news report, you are both padding out your story and revelling in the death counts. Again, just stop.)
- sanmon3186 11y agoThe count has some meaning for post disaster preparedness
- joosters 11y agoAbsolutely, but that count doesn't and won't be sourced from a 24 hour news channel, newspaper or shoddy news website. Likewise, in the grand scheme of things, it is important to know the magnitude of the human cost of a disaster. But not anywhere near a minute-by-minute basis. ("We're hearing that the death count has risen to 12"... and so on).
- wanda 11y agoThere's just something grim about that /favourite star/ icon used by USGS to indicate the quake's epicentre on the map.
- pestaa 11y agoI read the comments first and I assumed you may be exaggerating a bit. Certainly it's fine to use a "*" on the map to distinguish from cities? It could only be worse if they had chosen a smiley emoticon.
- mahouse 11y ago"Favourite star" icon? Sorry but stars have been used as landmarks since forever.
- freehunter 11y agoTo be fair, it's not terribly common, especially to use a gold colored star. Usually a black star or a white star with a black outline is more common. However you're right, it's not without precedent. Here's a very similar star being used by the US Government in one of their maps: http://www.usgs.gov/state/images/maps/AK.jpg http://www.usgs.gov/state/images/maps/AK.jpg
- throwaway_97 11y agoSchool let us off early after the earthquake in Assam. It was felt for a full minute.
- dpacmittal 11y agoThis was a huge earthquake. Aftershocks are still continuing and have been said to continue for next 2 to 3 days although they will be in descending order. People are advised to stay alert and be out in open areas. People should also stockpile food, water, batteries. Also, please use your phone less (save charge for emergency), and unclog the network for people trying to reach their loved ones. I'm from Nepal (not living there anymore but have tons of family and friend back at home). Hoping everyone is safe, and asking people to NOT PANIC in any situation. Some resources: Google people finder - https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake Helpline numbers in nepal: http://i.imgur.com/e0mRxgz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/e0mRxgz.jpg Helpline number in India: +91 11 2301 2113 +91 11 2301 4104 +91 11 2301 7905
- ohashi 11y agoFacebook has a nice feature safety check I just got notified about: https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake/ https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake/
- praneshp 11y agoIt's a little bit annoying though. Friends and others living in random parts of the world are marking themselves safe. Not all of them are narcissistic, so I wonder if the feature is not very intuitive? Not taking away how useful it is though. Even with all the noise it was reassuring to know friends in the tremor area (which included a large part of North India) were safe.
- ohashi 11y agoI haven't noticed much abuse. I lived in Nepal for a couple years and have a lot of friends still there. It was nice to see all of them marking themselves as safe versus the random display of facebook status updates saying they were ok. Dont know whose update I saw or didn't see.
- kefs 11y agoreddit live thread: https://www.reddit.com/live/usqod2db8ogh https://www.reddit.com/live/usqod2db8ogh
- mooreds 11y agoGoogle person finder for the quake: https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake
- TeMPOraL 11y agoJust now from the live thread: > A C-130 Hercules will be taking 10 NDRF (National Disaster Response force) from India to Nepal. Each NDRF team consists of 45 personnel including engineers, technicians, electricians, dog squads and medical/paramedics. They have a proven track record of working in disaster areas. Part of me is getting worried. If I'm reading this correctly, they're shipping 450 people via single C-130. What happens if the plane breaks? India will be out of NDRFs?
- piyushpr134 11y agoC-130 Hercules is a very reliable plane. Don't worry
- inetsee 11y agoThe C-130 does not have the capacity to transport this many people in one flight, especially including the gear they will most likely be taking with them. There may be several C-130s involved in this operation. It's possible that one C-130 could get all these NRDF personnel there in one day with several flights. I would expect that the C-130(s) will be involved in flight operations over the next several days (or weeks) in support of this operation.
- venomsnake 11y agoI think that a billion person country has more than 450 disaster relief trained people. On the other hand - there may be capacity to receive one plane, but not 10 - you don't know how long the infrastructure will be working. My mind is with the people of Nepal, hoping for the best.
- sidcool 11y agoThe aftershocks were felt in many parts of India. There have been casualties in Delhi.
- joshuahedlund 11y agoFor immediate email notifications about earthquakes, here is the USGS link[1]. You can set up customized magnitude ranges for customized parts of the globe, it's a pretty neat little service. Rule of thumb for context is 7.0+ happen about once a month and 8.0+ happen about once a year... I have it email me about every 7+ on the globe, every 6+ in my country (US) and I think every 3+ within a decent range of my city. [1]https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/ https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
- xasos 11y agoPlease, please, please don't donate to an undirected organization where the money might not even go to Nepal, or the organization takes such large cuts.
- chhantyal 11y agoI created list of reliable organizations which are working on it and accepting donations https://github.com/chhantyal/PreyForNepal https://github.com/chhantyal/PreyForNepal
- EugeneOZ 11y agowell, it's not so dangerous, don't stop people to do it. Better to donate with chance 50% that this money will go to Nepal directly, than don't donate at all.
- dyoo1979 11y agoYou assume that it's not dangerous even if it doesn't go to folks who would be helped. I disagree: the possibility of contributing to frauds is not harmless. There is also opportunity cost: if you've donated to someone who is incompetent, then you no longer have those resources to fund someone who can make better use of those funds. Ideally, you want to focus on the folks who can make a difference. Just funding folks with good intentions isn't enough. As an example of a group that appears to want to help drug addicts, but is pretty dangerously incompetent at it, listen to the Prologue and Act One of the This American Life story "Not It": http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/554/not-it http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/554/n...
- EugeneOZ 11y agoI don't assume, it's simply logic. If you donate you do have chance to help, if you don't - you don't. It's easy enough to find well-known foundation and give them money. I also use Google One and my weekly donation there is around $20. It's really easy, don't invent reasons against doing it.
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- jqm 11y agoMaybe caused by giant robot in Pakistan?
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- grecy 11y agoIt seems the quake caused some big earthquakes on Everest, reports are a little unclear now but it seems damage was done. https://twitter.com/danielmazur https://twitter.com/danielmazur
- rprameshwor 11y agoSome casualities have been reported around the Everest Base Camp Area.
- taksintik 11y agoTerrible news. Kathmandu is only 40 mi away from the epicenter. That city is extremely dense (1mm+ population) with poor infrastructure. Hope the damage isn't too bad.
- chii 11y agojust as an aside, why do i keep seeing people use 'mm' to stand for million? Is it cultural/country based? i don't think it's a western trait to use 'mm' for million (more common is to just use 'm', or 'mil').
- losvedir 11y agoI do it sometimes (American here). I've always thought of it as M = 1,000 in roman numerals so MM = 1,000 x 1,000. I think I picked it up from a couple years in finance where it's more common.
- ahelwer 11y agoIt is common in economics in the west, specifically oil & gas.
- sp332 11y agoIn French, "mille" = 1,000. So "mille mille" = 1,000,000. As losevedir mentioned, it's more common in finance.
- koenigdavidmj 11y agoFor Latin-derived words, doubling the letter pluralizes an initialism. You will see 'p. 5' to cite one page, and 'pp. 8-17m to cite more than one.
- RockyMcNuts 11y ago728,000 living in area of 'violent' shaking, 5,368,000 in area of 'very strong' or higher (not 100% sure I'm reading it right). http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Nepal_InitialSA_V1.pdf http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Nep... will be a miracle if not many thousands killed.
- clockwerx 11y agohttp://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2015-04-25_strong_earthquake_in_nepal_hot_activates http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2015-04-25_strong_earth...
- neokya 11y agoIf you want to donate, here is list of reliable organizations who are working with victims of Nepal earthquake and accepting donations https://github.com/chhantyal/PrayForNepal https://github.com/chhantyal/PrayForNepal
- swatkat 11y agoIndian Ministry of External Affairs has opened a 24-hour control room to coordinate rescue operations in Nepal. https://twitter.com/meacontrolroom https://twitter.com/meacontrolroom https://twitter.com/MEAIndia https://twitter.com/MEAIndia
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- anaxag0ras 11y agoNepal Ham Radio Emergency Traffic is on 14.215khz & 14.205khz. You can listen on WebSDR. http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/