The workshop is co-directed by Aoudia, Roger Bilham (University of Colorado, USA) and Bishal Upreti (Tribhuvan University, Nepal).

UNESCO: ICTP seismology workshop in Nepal focuses on Himalayan hazards | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Nevertheless, Roger Bilham, of the University of Colorado, says it is doubtful that the Kashmir quake released more than one tenth of the cumulative energy stored there.

ECONOMIST: Why the Kashmir earthquake happened and what might be done

Roger Bilham, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, says the latest quake may have released only a tenth of the pent-up energy that has accumulated along the region's fault lines due to tectonic shifts.

ECONOMIST: Tragedy on one of the world’s main fault lines | The