One of the most powerful earthquakes in the region was the 1950 Tibet and neighboring Assam (India) earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.6. It was one of the strongest earthquakes of the 20th century ...

Earthquake today jolted several parts of India including Bihar and Assam. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal, Tibet and areas around it at 6:35 AM local time. The epicenter of the massive was ...

The second earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or above since 1950. It formed a rupture ... and killed over 3,000 people in Tibet and more than 1,000 in Assam, India. In the hardest-hit areas, mountains ...