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 ...

Two earthquakes rocked western Nepal, ... The previous deadliest earthquake to strike the country, in 1934, killed at least 8,519 in Nepal, as well as thousands more in India.

Nepal may have had a well-known history of earthquakes but predicting when and where a major seismic event will strike is an ongoing challenge.

7 Deadly Earthquakes That Hit Nepal Since 2015 ... The previous deadliest earthquake to strike the country, in 1934, killed at least 8,519 in Nepal, as well as thousands more in India.

Nepal was hit by a quake on Friday in which 128 people were killed and dozens of others injured. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Nepal, which has an abundance of as-yet-undammed rivers, a chronic shortage of energy (nineteen-hour blackouts are routine across the country), no spare cash, and little engineering expertise, is ...

The earthquake that hit Nepal in 2015 claimed the lives of about 9,000 people There is an increased risk of a future major earthquake in an area that straddles the west of Nepal and India ...

Of the seven severe earthquakes in 2023, four occurred in Asian countries-China, Nepal, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. On Sunday, last day of 2023, 6.3 magnitude of earthquake jolted Indonesia.

This approach, however, is unlikely to prove useful for quakes which strike far inland, such as the devastating magnitude 7.8 event that struck Nepal April 25. Such tidal forces are weaker in the ...

Nepal and India are also earthquake hotspots because of the collision of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate, a process which formed the Himalayas. ... Slip-strike earthquakes.

Great earthquakes in the Himalaya are thought to occur mostly along the range front. Field mapping and radiocarbon dating reveal earthquake rupture on a previously unrecognized fault in the ...