Nepal is in a transitional phase and has recently transformed into a federal setup with seven administrative provinces. The several decades of political instability and ten years of armed conflict that ended in 2006, plunged Nepal into poverty. The situation is particularly grave for the Province 2...
The geophysical event was low-risk in terms of the expected frequency of the earthquake and tsunami, but the high concentration of people settled along the coastlines of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand demonstrate the need to incor- porate exposure into the risk equation (...