ALMORA: The northern Himalayan region has experienced an average of 200 earthquakes annually for the past 27 years, a Kumaon University study has revealed. While most tremors are mild, two to three ...

To help seismologists better understand faults in California and elsewhere, Steve Wesnousky, a geologist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and two of his graduate students, Ian Pierce ...

The earthquake's power dropped the high peaks of the Himalayas, but the "slip," or motion on the fault, stopped before doing the same to the lower peaks. The stop meant the area retained energy from ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, ...

Kathmandu, May 28 (PTI) India has pledged Nepali Rupees 560.2 million for the construction of 14 schools in eight ...

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as ...