Disaster Risk Reduction: Seismic hazard analysis in Nepal

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• Dr Victoria Stevens (RMS)
• Monday 22 January 2018, 17:30-18:30
• Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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I recently spent 9 months living in Kathmandu working with a local NGO (called NSET ) that specializes in earthquake risk mitigation. My project involved doing a new probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) of Nepal which will go on to inform an update to the Nepali building code. I will briefly talk about my time spent doing a PhD in earthquakes at Caltech, and how this led to me becoming interested in international development and disaster risk reduction. I will spend most of the time talking about Nepal, my work there and PSHA , and general seismic hazard issues that the country faces. I will finish by talking about my fairly recently acquired job with RMS , a catastrophe modeling firm, which works mainly with insurance companies, but also with DFID , the World Bank etc. on some hazard/risk projects with developing countries. I will also briefly mention two shorter projects I was involved in: Ecotourism in Northern India as a volunteer, with an NGO based in India and Analyzing drought risk in Africa, as an intern at the UN based in Germany.

This talk is part of the Sedgwick Club talks series.

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