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Magnitude 8.0 Earthquake
August 26, 1833. The earthquake destroyed towns and devastated districts. (Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes [7 to 1899 A.D.], Report of the 81st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Portsmouth, London, United Kingdom, p. 649-740.) -
Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake
May 23, 1866, Khatmandoo, Nepal. The earthquake destroyed a large portion of the town. (A catalogue of Indian earthquakes from the earliest time to the end of A.D. 1869, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, p. 163-215.) -
Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake
July 7, 1869. The earthquake destroyed towns and devastated districts: the acceleration of the ground in these cases exceeds 5 feet per sec. (Earthquakes in the Himalayan Region. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta, India, 64 p.) -
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake
August 28, 1916. The earthquake took place with a shallow depth. (Secular seismic energy release in the circum-Pacific belt. Tectonophysics, vol. 2, no. 5, p. 409-452. DOI:10.1016/0040-1951(65)90035-1) -
Magnitude 8.3 Earthquake
January 15, 1934. The earthquake was one of the most severe in Indian history. It felt over an area of 1,900,000 sq. miles, at least 10,000 lives lost. (Earthquakes in India and neighbourhood. Indian Journal of Meteorology and Geophysics, vol. 17, no. 4, p. 521-528.) -
Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake
Six earthquakes of magnitude equal to or greater than 5.3 affected the frontier region between India and Nepal, east of Moradabad. Due to the dense population and weak building construction in the epicentral area, 80 persons were killed and 5,000 houses were destroyed. (Annual Summary of Information on Natural Disasters, UNESCO, Paris, France, 1966 (no. 1) through 1973 (no. 8), 612 p.) -
Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake
The earthquake caused $245 million damage. (EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium) -
Magnitude 6.6 Earthquake
The earthquake caused 1091 deaths and $131.5 million damage. (EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium) -
Magnitude 5.1 Earthquake
The earthquake caused one death. (Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to present.) -
Magnitude 5.1 Earthquake
The earthquake caused slight damage in western Nepal and in parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, India. (Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to present.) -
Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake
The earthquake was the country's worst in over eight decades, completely damaged 1,38,182 houses across Nepal and partially damaged 1,22,694 other homes. The death toll from Nepal's April 25 earthquake now stands at 8,019. Also, 17,866 people were injured and 366 are still missing. At last count Thursday, the National Emergency Operations Center estimated that more than 10% of the country's homes were destroyed (DeDeath toll in Nepal earthquake tops 8,000. Updated 1634 GMT (2334 HKT)) -
Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake
At least 37 people were killed Tuesday after the earthquake. It was followed closely by at least five aftershocks measuring from magnitude-5.6 to magnitude-6.3. Nepal's Home Ministry reported at least 42 deaths but later lowered the toll to 37. Meanwhile, it said at least 1,139 people had been injured in Nepal.(Dozens killed after magnitude-7.3 earthquake strikes Nepal. Published May 12, 2015.)
