A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) headed for Nepal on April 30 to make an investigation of secondary geological hazards in the country’s quake-stricken areas. 

The team was led by Cui Peng, a CAS academician and deputy head of the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) based in Chengdu city, in Southwest China’s Sichuan province.  It consists of 12 researchers from the IMHE, the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, and the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute.      

The team went to study secondary geological hazards including mudslides, collapses and landslides, avalanches, and glacial lake outburst floods, to give effective suggestions on geological disaster prevention for local government of Nepal.  

Cui Peng discusses with Nepal’s Information and Communication Minister(R).