{"id":68351,"date":"2015-04-24T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?p=68351"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:26:57","slug":"nepal-earthquake-response-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/news\/nepal-earthquake-response-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal earthquake response 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-bgs-blocks-content-container content-section\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p>Following the M7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal on 25th April 2015, the UK has played a leading role building an inventory of landslides and advising on the associated hazards. BGS and partners at Durham University have used satellite imagery to map and characterise over 3000 landslides triggered by the earthquake. We used various types of satellite data (obtained via the International Charter Space and Major Disasters and directly from data suppliers) including WorldView, UK-DMC2, SPOT, Pleiades and RADARSAT-2 to create maps of landslides active since the earthquake. These maps are helping the relief efforts by showing where roads or rivers are blocked and where villages have been affected by landslide debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK team has also worked alongside, and compiled the landslide maps from, other agencies such as NASA, <a href=\"https:\/\/nga.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NGA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdacorporation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MDA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icimod.org\/?q=18072&amp;utm_content=bufferae9f3&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ICIMOD<\/a> to produce a comprehensive map of the post-earthquake landslides. The maps have been posted in several locations including the <a href=\"https:\/\/disasterscharter.org\/web\/guest\/activations\/-\/article\/landslide-in-nep-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charter website<\/a>, UNOSAT, <a href=\"http:\/\/nga.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/PublicGallery\/index.html?appid=33f0a2b77ebe45c0a31a4b9a7b8a6d96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nepal Earthquake Support<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ewf.nerc.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earthquakes Without Frontiers<\/a>, and are being used on the ground by several relief agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"cta-section  rock-background-e \">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row md-row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Maps of active landslides in Nepal<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/download\/a-map-of-over-3000-active-landslides-in-nepal\/\"  class=\"button primary-background button btn-icon-download-white before \">A map of over 3000 active landslides in Nepal<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/download\/a-map-of-over-400-active-landslides-in-nepal\/\"  class=\"button primary-background button btn-icon-download-white before \">A map of over 400 active landslides in Nepal<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-bgs-blocks-content-container content-section\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\t\t<h2><\/h2>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cards cards-contact no-shape\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"media-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/luke-bateson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"lazy-blur wp-post-image\" alt=\"Luke Bateson\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/luke-bateson.jpg\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"info-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Luke Bateson<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Principal remote sensing geologist<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>BGS Keyworth<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/bateson-luke\/\">Find out more<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"17592,17424,17122,16523,9674,9609","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[797],"tags":[],"purpose":[],"challenge":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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