[HOT] New - Nepal Earthquake 7.1

[Prabhas Pokharel]

Hi all, the earthquake today was strong and quite long, and has a lot of
weary souls shaken. Reports of a few deaths in the valley and landslides in
the hills are already coming through. Damage around Kathmandu has been much
less than the first time from the reports I have been hearing and
observations on my own trip across the city coming home.

The one suggestion I thought I would fire off, which I'm guessing is also
obvious to the HOT community, would be focus some energy on this task:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1046 which covers the area nearest to
today's epicenter. Even though the imagery is a bit old, doing damage
assessments from the last earthquake and IDP camp markings will help the
work of relief efforts in those areas.

Other tasks that would also be helpful:
 - Identifying more recent imagery that has come in in Dolakha and
Sindhupalchowk (both priority 1 and 2 districts here
<https://gist.github.com/prabhasp/3a8207c3c8cd7de6ba7a>) would be good. A
few reported deaths are in mostly from Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur,
Dolakha, and Sindhupalchowk.

Tomorrow, the KLL team will also discuss whether we need to create some new
mapper tasks for first and second pass for Solukhumbu district (ie, the
Everest region), and more points east. The epicenter this time was farther
east than before, and damage reports may come in from farther east in the
country.

Thanks,
Prabhas

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:31 PM FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA <
fofana.13bazo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning Heather and everyone
> This mean that we must to do  our best to support Nepalese
> Le 12 mai 2015 08:26, "Heather Leson" <heatherleson at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Nama, thank you so much for writing during a hard time. Thinking of you
>> and the teams and our humanitarian allies.
>>
>> Please rest and be safe. We are here for you.
>>
>> Heather
>>
>> Heather Leson
>> heatherleson at gmail.com
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>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Nama Budhathoki <
>> namabudhathoki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We are terrified again. I am writing this from the parking lot outside
>>> our situation room. People are scared and seem to  be totally confused.
>>>
>>> Sent from my mobile phone.
>>> On 12 May 2015 13:43, "Heather Leson" <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks, many of you may be sleeping.
>>>>
>>>> There was another earthquake in Nepal this morning
>>>> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/150512071622053.html
>>>>
>>>> We will await direction from Activation and the Kathmandu Living Labs.
>>>>
>>>> Some of the humanitarians that I know in the field are posting to
>>>> social media about their safety.
>>>> Our thoughts are with the Nepali people and humanitarians responding.
>>>>
>>>> Heather
>>>>
>>>> Heather Leson
>>>> heatherleson at gmail.com
>>>> Twitter: HeatherLeson
>>>> Blog: textontechs.com
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