Common People Common Voice

Disaster follows in Sikkim: Two adjacent multi storied building at Vajra which collapsed on the fateful night of 23 rd September. Picture credit: Sadeep Gurung & Paras Mani Pradhan

United We Stand A week after Sikkim is hit by a massive earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitudes on Richter scale, many turmoil and difficult phases we have gone through. Many people lost their lives, many injured, many made homeless, and feared to death, many came back from death.......... . Even after a week of disaster, we have not forgotten the situation we were in exactly a week ago. Remembering the moment, gives us a goose bumps. Oh! The bumpy ride we experienced.   Sikkim , lies in one of the earthquake prone area of zone IV of high risk seismic zone. Though many people killed, injured....earthquake is not the real killer. Like in many places, the buildings and poor infrastructure and lack of adequate knowledge has led to many deaths. Knowing the fact that Sikkim could be worst hit, anyone even care and took measures that could prevent it from being worst? It has been seen that no one is well equipped, prepared and have adequate knowledge to tackle this kind of sit