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Himalayas should brace for 'mega quake' this century

2013-01-01 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: A 'mega earthquake' is likely to strike the Himalayas this century, causing catastrophic landslides and floods and killing more than 40,000 people, Indian and US geologists have warned. Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute of India and Stanford University, United States, analysed the fault that separates the Asian and Indian continental plates. Images of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) fault showed that a segment of it dips downwards by 15 degrees, and is steeper and...

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