Rt. Honorable Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inaugurated Earthquake Safety Exhibition 2010 at Jawalakhel on 16th January 2010. The exhibition was managed for the duration of Jan 16–19, 2010. Nearly two dozen agencies participated to display and expose their institutional initiatives & practices on DRR. The event was basically with the view exhibition to demonstrating earthquake safer construction technologies, knowledge & skills required for earthquake safety, and initiatives for earthquake risk reduction by different agencies.
Real size model of building construction was an instrumental for transferring knowledge of earthquake resistant building construction amongst key actors of that job area. Number of engineering students & professionals, community people, DRR practitioners, academicians, university students, house-owners, and different people from various clusters visited the exhibition with keen interest. Yet another attraction of exhibition was Shake Table Demonstration. This is a test with 1:10 scale building models with and without earthquake-resistant elements showing how buildings damage during earthquakes. It was performed on Jan 18 at 1:30 pm which was live telecasted by Sagarmatha Television, Kathmandu. Demonstration of fire drills, search and rescue etc. were other attractions of the Earthquake Safety Exhibition.
Participating Institutions |
ACTION AID NEPAL |
APURVA INTERNATIONAL PVT.LTD. |
ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL NGO |
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING CONSTRUCTION |
DEPARTMENT OF WATER INDUCED DISASTER PREVENTION |
DIPECHO PARTNERS NEPAL |
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS NETWORK NEPAL |
EARTHQUAKE RISK REDUCTION AND RESPONSE PLANNING PROJECT |
ECO Nepal |
HEATH CARE FOUNDATION NEPAL |
KATHMANDU EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TECHNICIAN GROUP |
KATHMANDU VALLEY TOWN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE |
LALITPUR SUB METROPOLITAN CITY |
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY NEPAL |
NEPAL ARMED POLICE FORCE |
NEPAL ARMY |
NEPAL POLICE |
NEPAL RED CROSS SOCIETY |
Oxfam GB |
PANCHAKANYA STEELS |
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM |
It is estimated that around 8000 persons visited the four day long Earthquake Safety Exhibition. All the visitors were requested to fill up a survey/feedback form about their perception on the exhibition. The following four simple questions were included in the survey form to get the peoples’ perception.
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How did you know that this Exhibition is being organized?
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Did you find anything new on Earthquake Risk Reduction from this Exhibition?
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How useful did you find this Exhibition?
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After visiting this exhibition what do you think you can do to enhance your seismic safety?
The response of the visitors to these questions is presented in the following figures
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