The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Saturday 25 April 2015

NEPAL EARTHQUAKE – INDIA AFTERSHOCKS – USGS REVISES IT TO 7.9 – IMPACT (1)

M7.9 - 29km ESE of Lamjung, Nepal
Depth: 28.131°N 84.649°E depth=15.0 km (9.3 mi)

ESTIMATED ECONOMIC LOSS


ESTIMATED FATALITIES


ESTIMATED POPULATION EXPOSURE
Population per ~1 sq. km. from LandScan


STRUCTURE INFORMATION SUMMARY
  • Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are highly vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though some resistant structures exist. The predominant vulnerable building types are unreinforced brick masonry and rubble/field stone masonry construction.
SECONDARY EFFECTS
  • Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides and liquefaction that might have contributed to losses.
SELECTED CITIES EXPOSED

MMI
City
Pop.
VII
Bharatpur
107k
VII
Lamjung
<1k
VII
Khudi
<1k
VI
Kathmandu
1,442k
VI
Ramnagar
43k
VI
Hitura
85k
VI
Pokhara
200k
VI
Gorakhpur
674k
V
Muzaffarpur
333k
V
Patna
1,600k
IV
Dhankuta
22k
From GeoNames Database of Cities with 1,000 or more residents (k = x1,000)

MMI
Shaking
Pop.
I
Not Felt
--*
II-III
Weak
--*
IV
Light
9,194k*
V
Moderate
98,089k*
VI
Strong
44,441k
VII
Very Strong
1,801k
VIII
Severe
14k
IX
Violent
0k
X
Extreme
0k

*Estimated exposure only includes population within map area (k = x1,000)

Source: US Geological Survey