GeoHazards International 's work in Nepal gained heightened media attention in the aftermath of the country 's April 25 , 2015 earthquake , its May aftershock , and other later aftershocks . Around two weeks before those earthquakes , GeoHazards International published a warning that " the 1.5 million people living in the Kathmandu Valley were clearly facing a serious and growing earthquake risk , " because an absence of any building code had meant most construction had taken place without consideration of natural disaster risk , technical information about earthquake risk in the Kathmandu Valley was incomplete and dispersed among several governmental agencies , and rapid population growth with one of the highest urban densities in the world made it challenging for Nepal 's preliminary progress on reducing its earthquake vulnerability to occur quickly enough
its May aftershock
May 2015 Nepal earthquake
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