- Action Planning Workshop for Tomorrow's Khokana held in Lalitpur
- "Action Planning Workshop for Tomorrow's Rapti Valley (Deukhuri) Capital City" Held in Lamahi, Lumbini Province
- Media Interaction held on plan for Tomorrow’s Rapti Valley (Deukhuri) Capital City
- Art Competition on Tomorrow’s Rapti City held in Rapti Valley (Deukhuri) Capital City
- National Tabletop Simulation Exercise by NDRRMA MOHA
- Workshop on Earthquake Hazard Assessment and Aftershock Forecasting was held in Lalitpur
- 26th National Symposium on ‘Earthquake Risk Reduction and Management in Nepal’ held in Kathmandu.
- Mason Training begins in Darjeeling, India
- 26th Earthquake Safety Day observed in Nepal with the slogan: Let's promote use of Local Resources and Technology for Earthquake Resilient Structures
- Shaping Visioning Scenarios for Rapti, the Lumbini Provincial Capital City in Nepal
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USMCA2015: Excellent Young Researchers Awarded
Congratulations to young scientists who grabbed Excellent Young Researcher Award for their papers presented in #USMCA2015.
The awardees are:
National
Mr. Bishnu Prasad Devkota
Asst. Professor, Nepal Engineering College, Nepal
Paper on "Recommended waling speed based on pedestrian's behavior at mid-block cross in Kathmandu"
Mr. Dipendra Gautam
Disaster Risk Expert/ Anthropologist/ Civil Engineer
Center for Disaster and Climate Change Studies (CDCCS), Nepal
Paper on " Observed Damage Patterns on Buildings during 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake".
International
Mr. Rishi Ram Parajuli
Dept. of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
Paper on "Analysis of vehicle running on elevated expressways during earthquake"
Mr. Kenjiro Yamamoto
Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan
Paper on “Shake table tests on one-quarter scaled models of masonry houses retrofitted with fiber reinforced paint".
The "14th International Symposium on New Technology for Urban Safety for Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA 2015)" was held in Kathmandu during October 29-31, 2015. Altogether 7 keynote presentations and 80 scientifically researched papers were presented in the program. The scientific discourse was heavily focused on various facets of urban disaster safety including Disaster Risk Management, Urban Planning, Environmental Safety as well as lessons learnt from the recent Gorkha Earthquake 2015.
National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) and International Center for Urban Safety Engineering (ICUS), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan jointly organized the program in association with number of partner organizations. The conference had extensive participation of around 250 scientists, researchers, practitioners, professionals and other DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) stakeholders from 8 different countries within the continent.
The symposium bade goodbye to all the USMCA2015 participants in Nepal after announcing the Philippines as the next destination for the USMCA2016.
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