Last month's Tsunami was one of the devastating in the recorded human history, with toll over 155,000. No one know it was coming, but there it was, brewing up deep under earth's crust. Ever since, I have been disturbed and thinking what if an earthquake of similar nature and magnitude occur in the himalayas? If it happens, are we ready for it? Do you think Nepali Government is capable of rescue and relief effort? What can we do to prepare ourselves? What does it do to current maoist crisis? What can we tell our loved ones back home? We cannot even make a proper phone call back home during normal time, what do you think will happen if a massive earthquake hits our region? Lets think for a moment. I want to quote a few experts from an article from 2001. REMEMBER though 4 years is like fraction of seconds in Geologic timeframe. So this article is as relevant today as it was on the day it got published.

http://www.tew.org/archived/earthquake.research.html

bedrock bro, you know that there is a way that you can predict when the tsunami causing earthquakes is gonna occur by the use of properly monitored seismographs, which is done by measuring the water level chances at tide-gauging stations.... and they have it in pacific region........ after tsunami hit hawaii in 1946....... it can predict when the tsunami is gonna hit the land, not pin point the time, but close enough so that they can evacuate..... if dem nations located near indian ocean would have also set up the same kidna monitoring center.... (yeah, its expensive!!!), they would have been able to evacuate the land and save alot of people........
now talking about Nepal.... dyam....thats a really good question you have raised "what if an earthquake of similar nature and magnitude occur in the himalayas? If it happens, are we ready for it? Do you think Nepali Government is capable of rescue and relief effort? What can we do to prepare ourselves? What does it do to current maoist crisis? What can we tell our loved ones back home? We cannot even make a proper phone call back home during normal time, what do you think will happen if a massive earthquake hits our region? " - Bedrock
anyways, since we dont really have an answer...i would just hope and pray to god that something like that would not occur in nepal...
and ppl who would really like to live and not suffer thru something like that:
desh chodera ramro economic condition bhako desh ma jane ra afno jyan bachaune...

or ..... jun chai earthquake epicenter bata tada cha.. tehi region ma gayera tent lagaune....
check this out to see where it might be the safest for you..... again, earthquake ko epicenter bata tada jane...
http://topex.ucsd.edu/es10/lectures/lecture06/plates.gif

SID: As you can see in the link you posted we lie right through the destructive margin, epicenter and some how connected to the recent 9.0 earthquake. No matter how much we ignore it, its a fact that Nepal is sitting right on top of moving plate (that's how the Himalayas was formed incluing Mt. Everest, which we are so proud of). The question remains, is there anything at all we can do from here to prepare our loved ones and others back home "if" such an event might happen?