1. (The Gorkha Earthquake)
Lesson Learn From Mission on
Nepal Earthquake 2015
(The Gorkha Earthquake)
Major A K M Shakil Newaz
Director (Ops. & Maint.)
Team Leader
Dilip Kumar Ghose
Vice Principal
Member
Md. Tanharul Islam
Senior Station Officer
Md. Hafijur Rahman
Warehouse Inspector
Muhammad Mamun

2. Gap Areas between Bangladesh and Nepal
Katmandu
Dhaka
Total area Katmandu valley 570 Sq Km
Total area Dhaka City 360 Sq Km
Total Population 25 lacs
Total Population 1 core 60 Lacs
Building (approx)
Building (approx)
Cylinder Gas
Pipe Gas
Less soft soil area
Large soft soil area (65%)

3. Gap Areas between Bangladesh and Nepal
Katmandu
Dhaka
Nepal has National Emergency Operation Center (NEOC)
In Bangladesh, we do not have any full fledged Emergency Operation Center (EOC).
Less number high-rise buildings in Nepal .Only 12 High –rise building (16 storied building )
Mushrooming of high-rise buildings.
Number of open spaces are more in Nepal which are currently used as shelters
Less number of open spaces
Nepal has approved National Dead Body Management Act which was legal support in this earthquake disaster
Need to develop and approve such act
Old building Code People tend to ignore the building code while constructing new buildings in Nepal.
BNBC People tend to ignore the building code while constructing new buildings in Bangladesh.  .
Gap Areas in Bangladesh following the context of Nepal Earthquake:

4. Gap Areas between Bangladesh and Nepal
Katmandu
Dhaka
There is no database of Community Volunteers in Nepal
Maintain Database of Community Volunteers
 No Industrial area
Have number of Industrial area(Garments factory, chemical factory ,boiler etc)
No Designated team .
 FSCD having Designated USAR Team
No Inter operable communication System
No Inter operable communication system
Retrofit is done in some KPI
Not done
Insufficient USAR equipments
Insufficient USAR Equipments
Lack of awareness, drill and practice
Lack of awareness ,drill and practice
No back up power supply
No back up communication system

5. Why was the Earthquake in Nepal on Saturday so deadly
High magnitude-7.8 on the Richter Scale (Most powerful in the region
Shallow Hypocenter - Only 11 km below the Ground
Cause landslide and Avalanches
Significance After shock up to 6.7 on the Richter scale
Very old and poor construction
Not following the building code(Old building code NNBC-1980)
Lack of Quick Response
Measurably fail to asses the damage
Fail to make the NEOC functional
Fail to Organize SAR team
Shortage of SAR equipments
Lack of Coordination among the stake holder
Unplanned relief operation
RDC Fail to mobilize the foreign team quickly (custom clearance)
Bad weather
Fail to clear the supply road in time which delayed to decentralize the resources

6. Positive aspect of Nepal Earthquake
25Aril was holiday all school ,college ,university n and offices were closed.
No Fire from gas or electricity
Earth quake happened on day time
Nepal does not have any industrial area
Shallow lequiffication happened as because of earth structure
There was no heavy traffic in the mobile communication after the earthquake
Nepal government provided free international and local phone calls for the first one week.
The earthquake was not stronger than the seismologist expected
NEOC established on 2009
No commodity price hike
Community people are the invaluable assets during any Crisis.
Retrofit building have performed well.