“There has been a collision between Indian and Eurasian plates going on underground for a long time which has accumulated tremendous energy...

They say quakes with higher intensity than the one that struck Manipur on Monday are likely to rock the region in future.

This was resulted in deceleration of Nepal's real GDP growth to 3.4% in 2014/15 (mid-July 2014 to mid-July 2015) from 5.5% in 2013/14, the ...

Seismologists have been expecting a great earthquake for over 500 years now along the 400km faultline under the Himalayas, but are uncertai...

Delhi needs to prepare for devastating earthquakes as experts say it is prone to severe tremors and the region can be rattled by tectonic s...

Losses in agricultural production and damage to transport systems further pushed up prices, raising inflation to about 7 per cent, the IMF ...

The researchers believe that some of this stress has shifted west, to an area stretching from the west of Pokhara in Nepal to the north of ...

Reflecting the rising cases of human trafficking post-earthquake in Nepal, 838 people have been intercepted along the Indo-Nepal border fro...

The study assessed the presence of low frequency and high frequency waves over the three stages of the earthquake.

The programme also emphasizes to review the building code of 2008 and its implementation in all the municipalities across the country.

ADB pledged $600 million to help Nepal "build back better" after the devastating April 25 earthquake, which had resulted in huge loss of li...

Following the devastating earthquakes in the country that caused a loss of over 8,000 lives, Nepal had to close down its four UNESCO world ...

Nepal's 7.3-magnitude earthquake today was followed by at least seven more tremors in a span of less than two hours, the IMD today said.

The threat of landslides and mudslides remains high in Nepal in the coming weeks, and the risk is likely to increase during monsoon rains, ...

This is in addition to the USD 1 million already provided to the quake victims in Nepal on Saturday.

While there is no way to predict an earthquake, sampling seismic data over past 150 years points to possibility of a huge quake over next f...

An NIDM paper on the national disaster risk profile, referring to scientific assessments, warned that very severe earthquakes were likely t...