Kathmandu, April 10
Pioneer earthquake safety actors of the country have launched a training programme for making their personnel able to assess earthquake hazards and forecast aftershocks more accurately.
Nepal Government’s Department of Mines and Geology, United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) and Earthquake Safety Solutions (ESS) launched the four-day event in Kathmandu on Tuesday.
The US Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) is funding the event.
Inaugurating the training programme, the Department’s Director General Soma Nath Sapkota said, “The deliberations from this training are to serve for better policies and ultimately serve our people. We all scientists should be committed to making better policies and contributing to our people.”
He further added, “We have got new ideas and approaches; but equally important is to have good systems and instruments that we are focusing in our case.”
There will be half-day seminar on April 11 for media, senior government officials, academia to share the ideas on the theme, according to the organisers.
