Mishra, R. L., Singh, I., Pandey, A., Rao, P. S., Sahoo, H. K., & Jayangondaperumal, R. (2016). 46 10.1016/S0065-2687(03)46001-9. Liquefaction record of the great 1934 earthquake predecessors from the north Bihar alluvial plains of India. Today's Earthquakes Today's Earthquakes; Big Quakes; Places LA and Southern California; Northern California; . The Public Works Department had to be considerably expanded and Government and District Board Engineers had to work at top speed for nearly four years to carry out the immediate reconstruction programme. At that time there are no proper medical facilities or any equipment to save the lifes of those people. The earthquake damage observations indicate that the majority of the damaged buildings were stone/brick masonry structures with no seismic detailing, whereas the most of RC buildings were undamaged. Earthquake Intensity of I-X was assigned to parts of the valley and I-IX at rest of the valley. Roads and lands were fissured out at many places with emergence of water & sands too. Disasters In our field survey, 46 % of buildings were totally collapsed and 16 % were partially collapsed. Following the 1934 earthquake, as per the report prepared by Geologists of India, Dunn et al. The epicentre of the earthquake was located in eastern Nepal. Damages & Casualties were reported to be higher in Nepal than in India. Dehra Dun,. Ambraseys N and Douglas J 2004 Magnitude calibration of north Indian earthquakes; Geophys. Nepals only international airport would be inaccessible. Using the above reasoning we constrain the 1934 western edge of the Nepal rupture to 85.5 +/- 0.2 degrees East and its western edge to 87.0 +/- 0.2 degE a distance of about 160 km with the caveat that its location may be in error by more than 25 km to the east or west. Wu F, Sheehan A, Huang G C and Monsalve G 2003 Source mechanisms, seismicity, and velocity structures in the Himalayan region; Indo-US Workshop on Seismicity and Geodynamics 49 Hyderabad. Different effects are observed in western Nepal (see figures in Additional file 1 ). It is officially estimated that the flood-affected area of Bihar has increased from 2.5 million hectares in 1954 to 7.3 million hectares in 2016. Nepal-Bihar 1934. which caused irreparable damage to human structures. Primary surface ruptures of the great himalayan earthquakes in 1934 and 1255. Singh D D and Gupta H K 1980 Source dynamics of two great earthquakes of the Indian subcontinent; the Bihar- Nepal earthquake of January 15, 1934 and the Quetta earthquake of May 30, 1935; Bull. An M6.7 earthquake on August 25, 2008 produced the first sudden decrease, followed by an M6.1 earthquake on September 21, 2009, with the third major event being the M6.9 event on September 18, 2011. Journal of Earth System Science. [14] Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, an eminent freedom fighter, worked extensively in the earthquake relief operations. Large paleoearthquake timing and displacement near Damak in eastern Nepal on the Himalayan frontal thrust. 1934-01-15 08:43:25 UTC 8.0 magnitude, 15 km depth Lahn, Eastern Region, Nepal 8.0 magnitude earthquake 1934-01-15 08:43:25 UTC at 08:43 January 15, 1934 UTC Rajendran, C. P., John, B., Rajendran, K., & Sanwal, J. Leveling in Bengal and Bihar, 9397. Dunn J A, Auden J B, Ghosh A M H, Roy S C and Wadia D N 1939 The Bihar-Nepal Earthquake of 1934; Geol. The damage caused by the Bihar earthquake of 15 January, 1934, measuring 8.4 on Richter scale, include 10,700 human deaths, landslides and slumping in an area of 250 km length and 60 km width, ruptures and faults in the ground surface etc. Based on these evidences, it was concluded that the rupture zone; hypocenter and thereby the epicenter laid beneath the lesser Himalayas and not beneath the plains of northern India. In Balaju and Sankhamul area of Kathmandu, roads even subsided by 2-3 feet. It is certain that the loss of life would have been far more severe had not the main shock been preceded by two large foreshocks five hours before the main shock so that people went outdoors in alarm. Seismic instruments of that period were adequate to measure the magnitudes and properties of earthquakes smaller than magnitude 6 or so, but were not sensitive to the longer wavelengths and periods of great earthquakes such as the Bihar event. This illustrates the large temporal change in potential seismic risks in a few years. In Kathmandu around 25% of all houses were destroyed just like several temples in the old town of Bhaktapur Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 494, 216225. It was the most devastating calamity since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake. Nepal Ko Maha Bhukampa (The Great Earthquake of Nepal) (pp. The clock in the tower of the Secretariat stopped at 2.16 p.m. Current Science, 69, 101127. Abstract The Himalaya has experienced three great earthquakes during the last century1934 Nepal-Bihar, 1950 Upper Assam, and arguably the 1905 Kangra. Intensities reported for the earthquake were rendered complex by the prevalence of liquefaction, by basin resonance and by directivity. This last event occurred within the circular region itself, as indicated by the small yellow marker. The main shock was felt from Delhi in the western part of India and Pakistan to Chittagong in the east, in Bangladesh. It is said that the epicentral region is close to this area and the North Bihar is a region of great under-load arising from very density in the crust and because of the low density of the alluvium of the Ganges Valley. Journal of Seismology, 20, 733745. Nature (London), 582583. A. Dunn and three assistants were sent to the areas chiefly affected. He wrote that the Bihar earthquake was providential retribution for India's failure to eradicate untouchability. Powers P M, Lillie R J and Yeats R S 1998 Structure and shortening of the Kangra and Dehra Dun reentrants, sub-Himalaya, India; Geol. excessive rain during the earthquakes cause damage to the bridges. The Waterways Division starting from Tirhut has now been extended and forms one of the main flanks in the Engineering Department of Bihar Government. Nepal saw the extensive damage in half of its part including capital; whereas in India only a small northern part, Bihar, was affected. Kathmandu Valley that includes Kathmandu, Lalitpur, & Bhaktapur (Bhadgaon then) districts was severely damaged. B., Ghosh, A. M. N., & Wadia, D. N. (1939). (2016) Tectonic summaries of magnitude 7 and greater earthquakes from 2000 to 2015, USGS Open-File Report 2016-1192. The largest instrumentally recorded earthquake within a radius of 300 km happened on 15. In: P. J. Treloar, & M. P. Searle (Eds. Roads were tom and alignments were changed. Its rupture length was estimated to be 1,200 miles. Almeida, V., Hubbard, J., Liberty, L., Foster, A., & Sapkota, S. N. (2018). Top 5 Most Violent States to Live in The US, The US Armys 5 Disastrous Wartime Decisions, 6 of the Most Powerful Revolutions in History, 6 Times We Have Avoided All Out Nuclear War, Devastating Political Assassinations That Changed History, The Story Behind The U2 Spy Plane And All Its Consequences May, 1, 1960, Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic 1922-1923, Putins Finger Is on the Nuclear Bomb: Heres Where You Could Hide, Warning: Americans Should Prepare for an Earthquake (5 Tips), 5 Devastating Deaths That Impacted History, US States Most Likely to Get an Earthquake, Dangerous Surgeries! 13-National Earthquake Safety Day, 2011, Nepal. In: Survey of India Geodetic Report 1936, (eds). The impact was reported to be felt in Lhasa to Bombay, and from Assam to Punjab. Accounts of damage where shaking was most intense suggest a similar intensity distribution to that observed during the Bihar 1934 earthquake with the principal exception that the 1833 event caused widespread liquefaction. Source dynamics of two great earthquakes of the Indian subcontinent; the Bihar-Nepal earthquake of January 15, 1934 and the Quetta earthquake of May 30, 1935. The Bihar Earthquake of 1934 C. D. Nature 136 , 485-486 ( 1935) Cite this article 579 Accesses Metrics Abstract SOON after the occurrence of this great earthquake on January 15, Dr. J. The 1934 NepalBihar earthquake or 1934 BiharNepal earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes in the history of Nepal and Bihar, India. Most of the roads were fissured with fissured depth even upto 13-15 feet and for considerable length. Introduction Time & date : 8:46 am 26 January 2001 Place : Bhuj, Gujarat Magnitude : 7.9 Intensity : X Epicenter : 23.419N 70.232E Focal length : 23 kms Season : Winter Damages : Over 18,600 persons are dead and over 167,000 injured. Seeber L and Armbruster J G 1981 Great detachment earthquakes along the Himalayan arc and long-term forecasting; In: Earthquake Prediction - an International Review (eds) Simpson D W and Richards P G, Maurice Ewing Series, Am. Paleoseismological evidence of surface faulting along the northeastern himalayan front, India: Timing, size, and spatial extent of great earthquakes. 1934 Mw 8.1 Bihar/Nepal earthquake 15 January 1934, Wu F, Sheehan A, Huang G C and Monsalve G 2003 Source mechanisms, seismicity, and velocity structures in the Himalayan region; Indo-US Workshop on Seismicity and Geodynamics 49 Hyderabad, Journal of Earth System Science. 117, S2, 773-782. Ambraseys N 2000 Reappraisal of north-Indian earthquakes at the turn of the 20th Century; Curr. Post earthquake aggradation processes to hide surface ruptures in thrust systems: The M8.3, 1934, Bihar-Nepal earthquake ruptures at Charnath Khola (Eastern Nepal). Journal of Geophysical Research, 89(B7), 62036227. Internet Explorer). It was the worst that ever occurred in that country. Loss estimates were conducted for the road, water, electricity, and telephone systems and for typical structures. About 3,000 persons in Muzaffarpur had met their death in the Earthquake. London:Special Publications. The epicentre for this Presently, he works as a freelance/ independent history researcher, writer and works at www.awazthevoice.in, On January, 15th, 1934, at about 2.13 p.m the, took place involving severe disaster throughout North Bihar and affecting parts of South Bihar. Geodetic Branch Survey of India (p. 97). Kathmandu valley was severely damaged in that earthquake. 125 people lost their lives, 248 were seriously injured. In Purnea the cast iron piles of a bridge between the civil lines and the railway station were broken. The agricultural field was covered in knee-deep mud following the 1934 Bihar earthquake. Surv. ", "Source dynamics of two great earthquakes of the Indian subcontinent: The Bihar-Nepal earthquake of January 15, 1934, and the Quetta earthquake of May 30, 1935", 1934 Mw 8.1 Bihar/Nepal earthquake 15 January 1934, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1934_NepalIndia_earthquake&oldid=1133023739, All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 22:58. Gutenberg, B., & Richter, C. F. (1954). Minimum rupture length had been estimated as 100 Km. Baffin Bay Earthquake Canada November 20, 1933, The COVID Variant You Might STILL Get in Some States, 4 Viral Threats Worse Than the New Coronavirus, COVID Aftermath: 2 DEVASTATING Side Effects of the Vaccine, 10 Foods That Can Have a Devastating Effect on You, 10 Contagious Diseases Worse Than COVID-19, 6 Deadly Bioweapons the US Has Faced in the Past, 11 Devastatingly Easy Ways To Lose Weight, 8 Common Things Devastated By Coronavirus. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-016-9554-z. Around 4.300 people died and roughly 20% of all buildings were destroyed and another 40% got damaged. Dunn, J. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips, Not logged in Railway tracks were buckled or twisted, bridges collapsed or distorted and telephone posts uprooted and hundreds of bunds had fissured. Shortly after the Bihar Earthquake of 1934, the social workers under a mistaken idea started constructing a bandh across an innumerable waterways blocking the roads and railways, culverts and drainage channels. Pandey, M. R., & Molnar, P. (1988). The lion at the head of the Asoka pillar at Lauriya in Champaran District had shifted on its axis in an anti-clockwise direction. (2019). Your email address will not be published. The post earthquake reconstruction of roads, buildings, bridges, etc. L. Fermor. In 2016, floods affected over 2.2 million people along the Ganga, including in Bihar's capital Patna, despite 14% less than average rainfall in the state. Everest. 2022 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Rajendran, C.P., Rajendran, K. (2022). Avalanches onMount Everest This earthquake caused manyavalanches on Mount Everest. Large cracks appeared in the ground and several roads were damaged in Kathmandu; however, the temple of Pashupatinath, the guardian deity of Nepal, escaped any damage. 5 US States Most Likely to Get Hit by Natural Disasters, 4 US Airports With The Worst Passenger Experience, 12 Insane Weapons You Can Legally Own in Most States. Princeton University Press. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); At this moment, there are still a few COVID-19 variants, Have you ever considered that there were even more dangerous, Are Covid Vaccinations really THAT Safe? Hayes et al. Overcoming the odds How Babur Arafat brought Pride to India. The 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1 and caused 12,000 deaths in Nepal and India combined. Soc. The North Bihar Earthquake, 1934. (1939) and by Major General Brahma Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Nature (Nature) The area west of Kathmandu has not ruptured in the last three hundred years and stands out as a potential site for future great Himalayan earthquakes. Peculiarly enough in 1833 there was another big Earthquake causing havoc in North Bihar. Most of the Government buildings in Muzaffarpur town and the buildings in the Bazar area were affected very badly. Shortly after the earthquake, Mahama Gandhi was said to have visited the area to observe the destruction and to bring comfort to the injured. The town of Madhepura had subsided and buildings had cracked. This mountainous region is one of the most seismically active continental areas on earth. Kumar, S., Wesnousky, S., Rockwell, T. K., Briggs, R. W., Thakur, V. C., & Jayangondaperumal, R. (2006). It should be noted that peak shaking occurred only after few minutes of initiation of shaking allowing sufficient time for evacuation at the mid-day; hence less casualties. Lett. Superintendent, Government Printing, Bihar and Orissa, Patna, 1935. At places, even the water sprigs out about 10-12 feet from such fissures. Most of the damage was due to slumping, fissuring and tilting of the ground.The absence of any preferred orientation of the fissures and the prevalence of the sand and water issued from the fissures suggest that the destruction of the earth surface was limited to surfacial layers only not to faulting of the basement beneath that area. The loss to livestock was enormous. Jamhoor, Aligarh: Champion of Democratic Values, , - -. Earthq. Their most famous difference and debate was in 1934 when Gandhi was reported in the press to have made a statement following the devastating Bihar earthquake of 1934: "I want you to be superstitious enough to believe with me that the earthquake is a divine chastisement for the great sin we have committed against those whom we describe as Harijans". The official death toll was reported to be 8000 in Nepal and about 7000 in India, but the unofficial sources put the Indian figure near 25,000. 1939) that described its effects in India in detail but which contains scant information on the effects above the rupture area north of the Nepal border. (M 6.9) 1934 Bihar Earthquake (click photos to enlarge): The last entry in GTG's service record states "Resigned commission in A.I.R.O. Tilting and slumping of the houses were entirely absent. Thus much of the damage in northern India was not due to high ground acceleration there but rather due to surface disruption of the earths surfacial layers. Half of all electric lines would be knocked out. Bettinelli P, Avouac J-P, Flouzat M, Jouanne F, Bollinger L, Willis P and Chitrakar G R 2006 Plate motion of India and interseismic strain in the Nepal Himalaya from GPS and DORIS measurements; J. Geod. Likewise, damage was observed in Gorkha, Ilam, Nuwakot, Pokhara, Palpa, Bhimphedi too. Zones like Dharan, Sindhuli, Udayapur and Bhojpur were severely damaged. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4748-2_11, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4748-2_11, eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0). B. Rana (1935) indicates that severe shaking occurred in eastern Nepal. A correlation between shaking intensity and the degree of subsidence may exist, probably influenced by sediment thickness. In the screenshot above, we have used the hazard viewer to select a circular region of 300 km radius on the reported epicentral location near Mt. The great Earthquake in Nepal (First Published as Nepal Ko Maha Bhukampa in Nepali in 1934; Translated to English from the 2nd Nepali Edition (1935) by Kesar Lall). Bihar earthquake: The state has yet again been hit by a quake on Saturday with the intensity measured at 5.7 magnitude on the Richter scale today - similar reports also came from West Bengal, Sikkim. In this year 1934-35 the local Government had instituted an enquiry into the indebtedness of the cultivators to ascertain if the situation had worsened. Brett (1935) reported 7253 deaths in Bihar.After the earthquake John Auden (brother of the poet laureat W.H. Seismicity of the earth and associated phenomena. Nature Geoscience, 6, 7176. The reaction of the earthquake on rivers was remarkable. The distribution of intensity of the Bihar-Nepal earthquake of 15 January 1934 and bounds on the extent of the rupture zone. 6 85-98. Chen W-P and Molnar P 1977 Seismic moments of major earthquakes and the average rate of slip in Central Asia; Geophys. The continuing northward motion of India at the rate of about four centimeters per year has created wide-spread deformation, giving rise to the worlds highest mountains. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Google Scholar. Floods were there in the rivers carrying dirty waters. 4, pp. In Purnea the cast iron piles of a bridge between the civil lines and the railway station were broken. SOON after the occurrence of this great earthquake on January 15, Dr. J. Mem. Survey of India, Calcuta (391 pp). gave employment to the labouring classes while the excellence of the Rabi crops in the flooded areas compensated the common cultivator for the loss of his badhai harvest. Surv. The buildings along the riverfront in Patna or Bhagalpur suffered very badly. 6 Celebs Who Lost Their Lives Under the Knife. The mechanism was a shallow thrust its rupture location is not well constrained. Soc. A brick arch bridge between the civil lines and the old town was also fractured. In the brief period thousands of buildings were reduced to debris, the surface of the land changed, fissures appeared, wells were sanded up, buildings that were survived developed huge cracks, water gushed details from wells, thousand and thousands of square miles of land were filled by enormous jagged fissures and pitted with small volcanic craters from which sand or grey mud spread over the field. Hough, S., & Bilham, R. (2008). The towns of Munger and Muzaffarpur were completely destroyed. and JavaScript. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B03304. Burrard, S. (1934). CrossRef [12][13] In Bihar, Sri Babu (Shri Krishna Sinha) and the other great leader Anugrah Babu (Anugrah Narayan Sinha), threw themselves into relief work. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Nepal six miles south of Mt. Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Ground levels in Bihar in relation to the earthquake of January 15 1934. Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin. The human casualty in Monghyr was very severe. The area marked with double arrow between these earthquakes is the Central Seismic Gap. Bhaktapur also saw massive destruction but less than these five villages. In Bhagalpur district many buildings collapsed. Yeats, R. S., & Thakur, V. C. (2008). Rana, B. S. (1935). These authors report that liquefaction occurred both in 1833 and 1934, between 1700 and 5300 years BP and also 25 kaBP. 70(3) 757-773. Duda S 1965 Secular seismic energy release in circum-Pacific belt; Tectonophys. First published on Sat 25 Apr 2015 16.53 EDT. the locking line of Feldl and Bilham (2006). Your email address will not be published. 423482). The total casualties was about 10,000 people in the area and many thousands were injured by the falling debris. Everest. Everest. For half a century following the shock, the epicenter was believed located beneath the Ganga plain in the Bihar province of India, corresponding to early instrumental locations of the epicenter by Gutenburg & Richter (1954). In H. J. Couchman (Ed. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution. Location and magnitude of the 1833 Nepal earthquake and its relation to the rupture zones of contiguous great Himalayan earthquakes. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, You can also search for this author in During this 1934 event, intensity X (maximum on the Mercalli scale) shaking from Motihari through Sitamarhi to Madhubani in Bihar caused extensive liquefaction in 128-km long and 30-km wide area (slump belt) which led to the collapse of most of the buildings in these regions. The estimated economic loss due to this quake is placed at around Rs.22,000 Crores. Science, 294, 23282331. 1442-1444. http://bit.ly/2bO3W3i. [1] Wikipedia entry on the Bihar Earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Bihar_earthquake. India 31, 104 pp.79. [5] In Rajnagar, near Madhubani, all the Kutcha buildings collapsed. Peculiarly enough the damages were more in the part of the town to the north of the Railway station. Springer, Singapore. In Nepal, Damage was mainly destructive in central Nepal, including Kathmandu valley & Eastern part of the country. Wesnousky, S. G., Kumahara, Y., Chamlagain, D., & Neupane, P. C. (2019). There is evidence that even larger events have occurred in the past, and geodetic and seismic monitoring show that stress is accumulating now. Tect. Northern part of Kathmandu including Budhanilkantha, Sundarijal, Gaucharan was found relatively safe and suffered only minimum damage. Petroleum exploration in Nepal. Bilham, R. (1995). Also, the length of rupture zone along east-west had been estimated as 200 100 Km. An outbreak of fire and spilling of hazardous chemicals. The new specifications promulgated by the Government laying stress on the use of horizontal reinforced concrete of R.B. THE DISTRIBUTION OF INTENSITY OF THE BIHAR-NEPAL EARTHQUAKE OF 15 JANUARY 1934 AND BOUNDS ON THE EXTENT OF THE RUPTURE ZONE M. R. Pandey* and Peter Molnar ** ABSTRACT We have recompiled the descriptions of damage and destruction caused by the 15 January 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake, given by both Dunn et al. The great 1934 Himalayan earthquake of moment magnitude (Mw) 8.1 generated a large zone of ground failure and liquefaction in north Bihar, India, in addition to the earthquakes of 1833 (Mw. Bollinger, L., Sapkota, S. N., Tapponnier, P., Klinger, Y., Rizza, M., Van Der Woerd, J., Tiwari, D. R., Pandey, R., Bitri, A., & Bes de Berc, S. (2014). On April 25, 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (and the subsequent 7.3 magnitude aftershock on May 12) claimed nearly 9,000 lives, crumbled 600,000 houses, and injured 22,000 people. Mr. Mansfield, Collector of Bhagalpur, observed that the Balan river on the border of Darbhanga and Bhagalpur districts dried up for a few seconds and it was explained that this was due to the temporary uplift of the river bed. Its rupture length was estimated to be 1,200 miles. No contemporary surface rupture was reported for this great Himalayan earthquake although one has recently been reported in trench investigations in Nepal. Damage to a man-made structure. News from the most affected region arrived only two or three days later. Heres The Truth! Singh, D. D., & Gupta, H. K. (1980). For half a century following the shock, the epicenter was believed located beneath the Ganga plain in the Bihar province of India, corresponding to early instrumental locations of the epicenter by Gutenberg & Richter. Palaeoliquefaction evidence of prehistoric large/great earthquakes in north Bihar, India. Surv. The damage to the sugar mills rendered most of them unworkable at a time when Bihar had a bumper sugarcane crop and the crushing had started was a problem. This 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurred on 15 January 1934 at around 2:13pm IST (08:43 UTC) and caused widespread damage in northern Bihar and in Nepal. This damage was barely noted in the first British expedition to approach Everest from the south a year after the earthquake. Major The High Court and the Government House were damaged severely. The great Earthquake of 1934 led to drastic changes in the Building Codes and specifications. The earthquake shocks of magnitude 5 to 6 have been recorded in the Garhwal region in 1803, 1809, 1816, 1966, Extensive damage was caused to life and property. Kangra (1905) and Bihar (1934). affected during this earthquake. The next crops in the affected areas were not bad. The intensity of ground shaking depends on the duration, local geology, and distance. The flood may result due to damage caused to the dams. 74(3) 213-229. 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Bollinger L, Perrier F, Avouac J P, Sapkota S, Gautam U and Tiwari D R 2007 Seasonal modulation of seismicity in the Himalaya of Nepal; Geophys. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. Damage there was generally less widespread, with fewer deaths recorded. 73 1-391. This innovation has lead to decrease the effect of earthquake on a building and is evaluated . Bilham, R., Gaur, V. K. and Molnar, P., Science, 2001, 293, Evidence for a great medieval earthquake (~1100 A.D.) in the central himalayas. It resulted in a huge death toll and caused extensive destruction to buildings and infrastructure both in the central-eastern Nepal and the adjacent parts of India. Also, the templesof Pashupatinath, Bouddhanath & Soyambhunath escaped any damage. Did Trump Ruin America for Good? Large himalayan frontal thrust paleoearthquake at Khayarmara in Eastern Nepal. Liquefaction record of the great 1934 earthquake predecessors from the north Bihar alluvial plains of India. 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