A series of earthquakes, the largest, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, struck Tibet near the Nepal-Tibet border on Tuesday morning. The tremors, which also rocked parts of India, Nepal, and ...

A decade has passed since a massive earthquake ripped through Nepal, but in Ram Bahadur Nakarmi's home the damage is still visible -- and so is the fear another might strike. Ten years ago, on ...

Earthquakes would be less scary if they could be forecast, like the weather. Small quakes would no longer be startling, and there could be early warning of bigger quakes, preventing a greater loss of ...

He said an example of this was the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal that left more than 8000 people dead in April last year. “You expect a particular fault line will be activated every 100 ...

ALMORA: The northern Himalayan region has experienced an average of 200 earthquakes annually for the past 27 years, a Kumaon University study has revealed. Whil ...

Earthquakes can set off deadly tsunamis that roll into shore as the seafloor is warped and thrust up by the quake. If there’s a big enough move in the crust, they can trigger volcanic eruptions too.

They told us that a devastating tremor was poised to strike Nepal at any moment. Kathmandu’s last major one was in 1934—it measured 8.0 on the Richter Scale and left an estimated 10,000 people ...