This book is an updated edition of the historical book Nepal ko Mahabhukampa 1990 (The Great Earthquake of Nepal, 1990 BS). The book has collected details of losses in the 1934 magnitude-8.4 earthquake, and relief and reconstruction works carried out in its aftermath. The 1934 quake is the greatest ever earthquake recorded in Nepal so far. The first edition of the book was first published few years after that.