how long did the earthquake in nepal last
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
The risk of a large earthquake was well known beforehand . In 2013 , in an interview with seismologist Vinod Kumar Gaur , The Hindu quoted him as saying , `` Calculations show that there is sufficient accumulated energy ( in the Main Frontal Thrust ) , now to produce an 8 magnitude earthquake . I can not say when . It may not happen tomorrow , but it could possibly happen sometime this century , or wait longer to produce a much larger one . '' According to Brian Tucker , founder of a nonprofit organization devoted to reducing casualties from natural disasters , some government officials had expressed confidence that such an earthquake would not occur again . Tucker recounted a conversation he had had with a government official in the 1990s who said , `` We do n't have to worry about earthquakes anymore , because we already had an earthquake '' ; the previous earthquake to which he referred occurred in 1934 .
The risk of a large earthquake was well known beforehand . In 2013 , in an interview with seismologist Vinod Kumar Gaur , The Hindu quoted him as saying , `` Calculations show that there is sufficient accumulated energy ( in the Main Frontal Thrust ) , now to produce an 8 magnitude earthquake . I can not say when . It may not happen tomorrow , but it could possibly happen sometime this century , or wait longer to produce a much larger one . '' According to Brian Tucker , founder of a nonprofit organization devoted to reducing casualties from natural disasters , some government officials had expressed confidence that such an earthquake would not occur again . Tucker recounted a conversation he had had with a government official in the 1990s who said , `` We do n't have to worry about earthquakes anymore , because we already had an earthquake '' ; the previous earthquake to which he referred occurred in 1934 .