About the Blog

These blogs are written at the Quakeschool Desk with an intention to share our work and viewpoints to a larger audience. We publish in three languages - English, Hindi and Gujarati. This is for most effective reach out. We try to give these articles utmost care in writing, translations, checks and reviews. We hope you find these posts informative. Please do drop in a comment if you can - a comment box is enabled underneath each blog post. If you would like to participate as a researcher, writer - please feel free to contact us. The current theme list for our blog posts is as follows:

 1.           Safety in Educational facilities*

2.            Structural Engineering

3.            Risk Management

4.            Systems design and applications/tool development

 *In the context of India and other countries, as applicable, we would also like to request you for covering an important aspect of the theme, i.e. of  'Emergency and Access' as an important specialist Researcher or Writer. If you may be interested, please feel free to contact us.

Thank you for reading. 

QuakeSchool Desk

Contributions

20. Sikkim Updates- 18th Sept. 2011 Earthquake, 05th May. 2012                                                                                                                                                                   Written:  Chandra Bhakuni   
Checks and Reviews: Pratul Ahuja

19. Sikkim Updates- 18th Sept. 2011 Earthquake, 10th Feb. 2012                                                                                                                                                                    Written:  Chandra Bhakuni   
Checks and Reviews: Pratul Ahuja

18. Some of our recent assignments, 06th Feb. 2012                                                                                                                                                                                         Written:  Chandra Bhakuni   
Checks and Reviews: Pratul Ahuja, Neha Manke

17. Sikkim Visit- Post 18th Sept. 2011 earthquake, 12th Dec. 2011
Written:  Chandra Bhakuni
Checks and Reviews: Smriti Saraswat, Shruti Nair, Pratul Ahuja

16. Engineering Lessons for Sikkim, India Earthquake (Magnitude-6.9), 24th Oct. 2011
Written:  Chandra
Review: Nitika

15. Magnitude 6.9 Sikkim Earthquake, 5th Oct. 2011
Written:  Chandra

14. Some earthquake feelers by Structural Engineers, 24th July. 2011
Written:  Chandra
Checks: Karsten

13.India's National Building Code on Staircases in Educational Buildings (Some Safety Clauses), 20th Jun. 2011
Written:  Chandra
Checks and Review: Trupti, Pratul

12.Risk Reduction Techniques - ALARA, 22th Mar. 2011
Written:  Tanu , Chandra
Checks and Review: Pratul , Nitika

11. Owner's responsibility and School Safety Audits in India, 5th Feb. 2011
Written: Chandra
Checks and Review: Pratul

10. The importance of playgrounds in school spaces, 13th Dec. 2010
Translated from Gujarati: Kirit  
Checks and Review: Chandra, Tanu

9. Approaches in Risk Reduction (The ALARP approach), 23rd Nov. 2010
Written:  Tanu
Checks and Review: Chandra, Pratul

8. Earthquake Threat in the Indian Subcontinent- India Seismic Zone map and its field implementation, 23rd Oct. 2010
Written: Chandra
Checks and Review: Pratul, Tanu

7. Launch of Quakeschool Website, September 17, 2010
Written: Chandra
Checks and Review: Pratul, Tanu

6. Some thoughts on Education Infrastructure in Developing Countries Thursday, August 19, 2010 
Written: Sandeep 
Checks and Review: Chandra, Pratul 

5. Damaging Earthquakes in the first half of 2010 Thursday, July 22, 2010 
Written: Chandra 
Checks and Review: Kasten, Nitika 

4. Risk of a Stampede Monday, June 21, 2010 
Written: Chandra 
Checks and Review: Nitika, Chandra 

3. An Important Drill Tuesday, May 18, 2010 
Written: Chandra 
Checks and Review: Nitika, Pratul 

2. Some thoughts on