The 1505 Lo Mustang earthquake (Nepali: सन् १५०५ को मुस्ताङ भूकम्प) occurred on 6 June 1505 and had an estimated magnitude between 8.2 and 8.8 making it one of the largest earthquakes in Nepalese history.

This quake caused apocalyptic destruction not only throughout most of Mnga' ris province in western Tibet, but also over western Nepal and large areas of northern India, especially present Uttar Pradesh. Though several Indian histories report a great earthquake in summer 1505, its significance has been overlooked by modem seismologists.

May 21, 2019 · According to paleoseismological studies, the last earthquake that ruptured the Main Frontal Thrust in western Nepal occurred in 1505 AD. No evidence of large earthquakes has been documented...

A good starting point for this correlation is the great 1505 AD earthquake. Historical records describe widespread devastation in western Nepal, northern India and southern Tibet (Fig. 1), from which a magnitude M s 8.2 has been estimated 12.

Jun 3, 2024 · 1505: The largest earthquake ever recorded in Nepal’s history took place on June 6, 1505. It had a magnitude of 8.9 and caused about 6,000 deaths and widespread damage to the infrastructure and landscape of Nepal.

Jan 6, 2025 · In Nepal’s Solukhumbu district, just across the border from the Chinese county at the epicenter, the tremors brought back memories of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck near ...

Dec 1, 2006 · Our preliminary work at a trench site in far-western Nepal has likely discovered the first direct evidence for surface rupture of the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT) during the 1505 earthquake.

On 6 June 1505 at about dawn (6 am) a great earthquake, or a sequence of major earthquakes, shook almost one-quarter of the Himalayan arc and contiguous parts of southern Tibet from east of Dehra Dun to the Thakola graben in Nepal (Figs 5 & 6). A month later, on 6 July 1505, an earthquake occurred near Kabul that is inferred to have ruptured ...

The most destructive earthquake known from the historical record, rather than merely from geological evidence, was probably that of June 1505, which devastated much of Tibet, western Nepal, and Uttarakhand (D. Jackson 2002), and which may have killed one-third of the population of what is now Nepal (Himalayan Risk Research Institute n.d.).

Mar 4, 2016 · Nepal earthquake of great intensity (Mw: 7.8) occurred on 25 April 2015 in Pokhara district of central Nepal and took a toll of more than 8500 human lives in Nepal, besides injuries to about 20,000 persons (NSET Nepal 2015). Loss of lives also occurred in India and Tibet and damage extended to Bhutan and Bangladesh.