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 ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. Nepal has a long history of earthquakes, including devastating events like the ...

In a post on X, the NCS said, “EQ of M: 4.2, On: 29/06/2025 14:19:05 IST, Lat: 29.35 N, Long: 81.94 E, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Nepal.” Shallow earthquakes are more dangerous than deeper ones ...

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 ...

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 ...