Project Link

http://eq2015.klldev.org

After the catastrophic consequences of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake measuring 7.8 in the Richter scale, the Government of Nepal conducted a massive door-to-door survey in the 11 most earthquake-affected districts. The survey aimed to collect both building damage data as well as socioeconomic data of the residents. Over the completion of the project, 760,000 buildings and 3.6 million residents were part of the final dataset. But, as is the case with such available micro-data, the information was large and complex to be of any direct use to its potential users.

Kathmandu Living Labs built an open Earthquake Data Portal so that end users can conveniently access and practically visualize the micro-data. The portal allows a user to easily explore and view the collected data and infer relationships between them. It provides rich map and chart interfaces for the users to visualize data. Users can also download those visualizations as well as the underlying data to generate their own charts. Advanced users can even download the entire dataset to perform their own analyses and generate their own visualizations. The portal also provides information on each table and its data columns.

The portal is the first one in Nepal to arrange and present data according to the new administrative boundaries as per the federal structure of the country. As the original data was collected according to the older administrative boundaries, this rearrangement of the data has added to its usefulness and usability in the changed context. KLL handed over the portal to the National Planning Commission. You can check out the Earthquake Data Portal here.