Right now i do not have any access to information regarding Himalayan seismic fault. But, below is a report on the Assam 1950 earthquake. A national boundary has no effect. Assam is geographically very close to us. So, an earthquake there may cause destructions in BD as well.
The Great Assam earthquake of 1950 destroyed the railroad bridge in the Lakhimpur district, cutting the main connection between Assam and the rest of the subcontinent
Standards when codified in print become rules that dictate the methods of designing and construction. If BD has that many rules codified in a set of book things would have been different. For example, the USA has codes like ACI, ANSI, API, AASHTO/AASHO, ASCE and others. UK has Codes of Practice given in numbers like BS 6399, BS 436 and many others.
Germany, Japan, and France have all kinds of industrial and building codes. But, can one cite any building code in BD that is followed in practice? I have seen small Box Culverts in villages whose wing walls have moved away by earth pressure. It means the country has not yet been able to compile codes and standards. There may be some verbal rules in the city offices which the developers do not care about. This is why roads are bad, drains do not dispose off water and the tall buildings have a chance of falling down during an earthquake.
Codifying the rules is a painful process and by our national character, we are unable to study and learn from many available international codes and compile our own. When we do not have any, India might have them. It is because I have encountered one "Dastur Engineering Consultants" in the Misurata Steel Mills construction project in Libya. This company compiled all the civil, architecture, and mechanical specifications for EBISCO, the Libyan govt engineering authority.
@Nilgiri
