Muzaffarpur is located at . The city lies in a highly active seismic zone of India . In the disastrous earthquake on 15 January 1934 , much of the town suffered severe damage and many lives were lost . It has an average elevation of 47 meters ( 154 feet ) . This saucer shaped , low-centered town lies on the great Indo-Gangetic plains of Bihar , over Himalayan silt and sand brought by the glacier-fed and rain-fed meandering rivers of the Himalayas
earthquake on 15 January 1934
1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake
Muzaffarpur