According to the BBC Nepal is high risk of earthquake

A great earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the banging of the top of Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic dunes. Earthquakes can vary in size from those that are extremely weak that they simply cannot be felt to those violent enough to chuck people around and damage whole cities. The seismicity or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and scale earthquakes experienced over a period of time.


Earthquakes are measured using measurements from seismometers. Just as soon as magnitude is the most frequent scale on which earthquakes larger than about 5 are reported for the complete globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also known as the Richter magnitude size. These two scales are numerically similar over their selection of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly imperceptible or weakened and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over larger areas, depending on their interesting depth. The most significant earthquakes in historic times have recently been of magnitude slightly over 9, although there is no limit to the possible magnitude. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli size. The shallower an earthquake, the more problems for constructions it causes, everything more being equal

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