TITLE:
Socio-Demographic Impact Study of Nepal Earthquake 2015 at Sindhuli District
AUTHORS:
Bishnu B. Khatri
KEYWORDS:
Socio-Demographic, Impact, Nepal Earthquake 2015, Sindhuli District
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Earthquake Research,
Vol.7 No.1,
February
28,
2018
ABSTRACT: As a result of the two major earthquakes that struck Nepal at 11:56 am on 25
April, and 12 May 2015, nearly 9,000 lives and over half a million homes
have been destroyed. In this connection, the paper tries to assess the socio-
demographic impact of Nepal earthquake 2015 with reference to Sindhuli
district. The Sindhuli district of Nepal was one of the highly affected districts
among the fourteen severely destructed districts of the central part of Nepal,
was purposively selected among them for the study purpose. The paper utilized
the both primary and secondary data. The survey found that the earthquakes
had unevenly affected the age, gender, poorer, rural locations relative
to the urban and less poor areas. It also found that women and children had
comparatively fallen victim to anxiety, trauma, depression, feeling helpless,
loss of interest (passive) and irrational fear. During the survey, the study
found that the NGOs, INGOs, Private and Personal support agencies/actors
had played significant role in distribution of relief package at Sindhuli district
of Nepal. The distributions of relief materials were challenging because of lack
of road connectivity to reach at many earthquake affected villages in Sindhuli
district.