development community focused on Nepal. Suchfloods endanger thousands of people, hundreds of villages, and basic …. Unlike most other mountain hazards in Nepal,reducing the possibility of outburst floods is technically feasible. The first … attemptwithin Nepal to reduce the hazard of one lake by artificially lowering its water levelwas partially completed in June 2000 …

Himalayas and surrounding regions have been studied on the basis of a variable space and time-scale approach. The observed … magnitude during 1900–2012. In result, the seismic hazard map of the Himalayas with spatially distributed PGA was prepared …

in the adjoining countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and China. Though earthquake forecasting is riddled with … of earthquakes (Mb ≥ 4.5; 1964–2006) in the Himalayas. ‘Point density’ spatial statistics has helped in detecting 22 …, we have guessed the possibility that Kangra, East Nepal, Garhwal and Kumaun–West Nepal clusters, in decreasing order of …

Garhwal Himalayas are seismically very active and simultaneously suffering from landslide hazards. Landslides are one … of the most frequent natural hazards in Himalayas causing damages worth more than one billion US$ and around 200 deaths … in the Garhwal Himalaya. An attempt has been made to incorporate seismic shaking parameters in terms of peak ground …

Leh and surrounding region of the Ladakh mountain range in the trans-Himalaya experienced multiple cloudbursts and …

, 2011. This earthquake is recorded on strong-motion network in Uttarakhand Himalaya located about 900 km away from the …

Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a powerful natural phenomenon that is very active in the Karakoram and Himalayas …

The October 2005 earthquake triggered several thousand landslides in the Lesser Himalaya of Kashmir in northern …

.5 earthquake in central seismic gap region of Himalaya. Two scenarios are considered with epicenter of future great earthquake at … central Himalaya from a future great earthquake. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 …