CHANCES OF BIG EARTHQUAKE AGAIN IN NEPAL>>

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The impacts stemming from the big earthquakes that struck Nepal earlier this year could have been much, much worse, say scientists.

An international team has just published a review of the events, showing the number of landslides was far lower than people had feared.

And the group could find no evidence of Himalayan glacial lakes suffering significant damage - a key concern.

The assessment has been published in Science magazine.

It has also been presented here in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union - the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.

"There were a lot of surprises," said study lead Jeffery Kargel from the University of Arizona, Tucson.

"The nature of the earthquakes' influence on the landscape, from the largest scales to the smaller scales, was not really as we would have expected," he told BBC News.

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