ABSTRACT
The Seismic Safety and Resilience of Schools (SAFER) project aimed to improve seismic hazard assessments in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. There remains scarce geotechnical data in this region. Therefore, the SAFER project team collected and sourced new geotechnical and geophysical data to allow for the development of improved maps showing the distribution of shear wave velocity measurements in the study region. This paper summarises geotechnical and geophysical investigations conducted in the valley and outlines the building of SAFER/GEO-591, which contains data from different sources such as previously drilled boreholes in the Kathmandu Valley. A methodology is proposed for geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists wishing to develop geodatabases in data-scarce regions.
