earthquake in Nepal

Jokester said:
That video of the avalanche on Everest :eek:
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Woah, that must have been terrifying. I've been fascinated by peoples ambition to climb Everest, with all the dangers that it holds. This is one danger that they didn't expect though :(.

Death toll is climbing still, it's now above 3300. Tragic news, I hope they get enough international help to rescue and save as many people as they can, and then to rebuild.
 
StriderX said:
Its terrible, but not all towards oblivious to the fact that living near faults, volcanoes and turbulent weather systems reduces the average life quality.

Expensive Technology could easily deal with most of these issues in time.
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Fixed for you.

Mind, it has been known how to build earthquake resistant structures for over 3000 years. The problem is that you need a fair amount of timber and I am not sure how available timber is in that part of the world.

On a broader note. I have always been interested in the sort of tunnel vision that people who live in areas that face these dangers develop.

I shall designate it the "Fukushima Effect".

By that I mean, there is a 40 odd mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima power station. Justified on the grounds of a slightly higher than normal level of back ground radiation (there are hot spots, but mostly it is pretty harmless).

And yet, If a young person chose to live their entire lives in a house next door to the damaged reactor they would still be hundreds of times more likely to die as a result of the next earthquake or tsunami than they would be to die of a radiation related illness. And down the coast where cities were destroyed in the earthquake (But there is no nuclear reactor) the cities are being rebuilt and people are happy to live with this danger.
 
Google executive Dan Fredinburg died in the avalanche, 3 other Google exec's on the same trip survived, I expect there are a good many ex Gurkhas doing their bit in the aftermath.
 
Hades said:
Terrible news. I find the fact we are only offering to send 8 people to help an absolute disgrace.
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Quality over quantity.

Its far better to have a smaller team who are effective that 100 or 200 people all falling over each other and are less effective especially in situations like this.
 
Talking to BT this morning

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do_ron_ron said:
The same adjustment, just was not resolved last time. Hopefully that will be the last major till the pressure builds again.
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Not looking good for the long term :| was reading a week back or so that they expect another big* one (unless this one has changed anything) inside the next 30 years before its done adjusting until pressure builds up again. They are gonna have to start planning around it.



* Bigger than the current ones.
 
I was on the phone this morning to our IT help desk team who are based in India when the quake hit. Was surreal, the guy on the other end of the phone was so calm. He said "Sorry you will have to wait a moment theres and earthquake, my colleagues are getting down and laying on the floor". Then 20 seconds later he came back on the line and carried on like nothing happened. So surreal.
 
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