One of the more westerly aftershocks , a few days later , was felt more extensively in Assam than the main shock . This led certain journalists to the belief that the later shock was ' bigger ' and must be the greatest earthquake of all time . This is a typical example of the confusion between the essential concepts of magnitude and intensity . The extraordinary sounds heard by Kingdon-Ward and many others at the times of the main earthquake have been specially investigated . Seiches were observed as far away as Norway and England . ( p. 63 – 64 . ) An article in '' Science '' , published in response to the 2001 Bhuj earthquake , calculated that 70 percent of the Himalayas could experience an extremely powerful earthquake . The prediction came from research of the historical records from the area as well as the presumption that since the 1950 Medog earthquake enough slippage has taken place for a large earthquake to occur . In 2015 , the Himalayas were hit by another large earthquake with an epicenter further west in Nepal
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April 2015 Nepal earthquake
1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake