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Jan 6, 2022
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Nepal Earthquake: Report from KLL Situation Room - Day 8,9 (May 3-4)

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Kathmandu Living Labs

Post-Disaster Satellite Imagery

Post-Earthquake Satellite Imagery has come online for Sindhupalchok.  We are grateful to DigitalGlobe for providing us this imagery. The international community of mappers has already begun updating this imagery on OpenStreetMaps, to map IDP camps and severely damaged housing areas.  We are hopeful that the clear weather in the last few days will allow us to receive satellite imagery for the other thirteen hard hit districts.

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Digital Globe May 3 Imagery
](https://kllsites.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/blogs_img/2015/05/screenshot.png) Digital Globe Imagery Captured on May 3rd, Sindhupalchok/caption

Collaborations

KLL started collaborating with the National Engineers Association (NEA) to systematically map damage assessments. NEA recruited 600 volunteers to survey the house for safety and categorize the houses as safe, requiring further observation, or unsafe/restricted. About a 150 new volunteers are being recruited and trained each day.  Nirab Pudasaini spent much of May 3rd at NEA to train these volunteers on how to use KLL Collect to track housing assessments.  This survey will be completed in every affected district for those houses who seek the help of NEA.

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](https://kllsites.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/blogs_img/2015/05/20150503_111612.jpg) Nirab Pudasaini from KLL speaks to NEA volunteers./caption

Mapping damaged cultural heritage sites

On Saturday, KLL members Megha and Miriam joined up with artist Joy Lynn Davis to train over 35 volunteers on  how to use KLL Collect to survey and map cultural heritage sites that were damaged or destroyed by the Earthquake.  This joint project is in collaboration with Remembering the Lost, Department of Archeology (DoA) and UNESCO.  Volunteers were trained to use smartphones to assess the damage to Nepal’s temples and stupas, to create a comprehensive list of the the areas that are in need.  DoA will use this data base to protect and rebuild Nepal’s cultural heritage.

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**QuakeMap.org**

QuakeMap.org continues to be used by those needing and distributing relief.  Lately, we have been working hard to create a process so that our volunteers can provide relief agencies with a list of reports that they may be able to take action on in certain areas. We have been blessed by the amount of support that others have provide for QuakeMap, quietly. Members from NepalMonitor.org and ParewaLabs team have been with us from day 1 and have been a part of the core team running operations behind QuakeMap. NCELL provided us 1,000 free SMS for sending alerts out to people who subscribe to particular categories of alerts on Quakemap.org. And finally, CloudFactory has donated a server to cope with the increased stress the server has been receiving.

Let me share some stats on Quakemap.org so far, for those interested (though we'll note that our main priority is getting reports dispatched to relief agencies, not just more reports):

Number of days running: 8

Number of reports: 1,341

Number of unique visitors: 40,992

Pageviews: 1,26,443


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