Science Channel@thesciencechannelStress is quietly building under the Himalayas.
An IIT Bombay-led study used GPS stations and satellite radar to find that a 115 km-wide stretch of the Main Himalayan Thrust beneath Uttarakhand is firmly locked. The strain building up there is equal to a magnitude 8.1 earthquake roughly every 100 years. The researchers stress this is not a prediction, but a reason to prepare.
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Source: ThePrint
