The April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal violently shook regions of icy peaks and valleys in parts of the high Himalaya closest to the epicenter. The University of Arizona, in ...

Fewer landslides resulted from the devastating April 2015 Nepal earthquake than expected, reports a University of Arizona-led international team of scientists in the journal Science. In addition, no ...

Nepal earthquake: Two mild earthquakes measuring below 5.0 magnitude hit Central Nepal early on Thursday. According to the national seismological centre, the first earthquake measured 4.9 on the ...

Figure 1: Rupture zone of 25 April Nepal earthquake. An uneven distribution of strain on a décollement results in a heterogeneous slip potential (also referred to as seismic flux 25 or potency), which ...

Through the Open Data for Resilience project, The World Bank, GFDRR, and other partners are supporting efforts to map areas at risk before a disaster strikes. In the six months following the April ...

Nuwakot/ Gorkha (Nepal), Apr 27 (ANI): About 70 percent of houses in Gorkha and Nuwakot districts of Nepal, that were the most severely affected during the earthquake, has been constructed under the ...

This composite photo shows the village of Langtang, located within the Himalayan mountain region of Nepal, before and after the April 25, 2015 Gorkha earthquake. More than 350 people are estimated to ...