Great Nepalese quake of 1255 points to Himalayan risk
Sunday, December 16, 2012 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
A mega-quake in 1255 that wrecked the Nepalese capital, wiped out a third of the population of Kathmandu Valley and killed the country's monarch, King Abhaya Malla, was of a kind that may return to the Himalayas, seismologists reported on Sunday.