Need to brace against more Himalayan quakes
11 months ago

Need to brace against more Himalayan quakes

New Indian Express  

It pointed to the shocking effect of the tectonic shift that horizontally split the Indian Plate as it pushed into the Eurasian Plate at the geologically-significant speed of 2 mm a year. The Indian Plate pushing into the Eurasian Plate is not a revelation, but the top and bottom layers getting split horizontally has shocked geologists. This process is mostly likely behind the increasing frequency of earthquakes reported, especially in North and Northeast India, as a thinner top layer—100 km thick—is getting peeled. This must make the Indian government wake up to its huge responsibility of ensuring the safety of almost half its population that is dependent on the Himalayan rivers’ basin drainage.

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The shifting plates
5 months, 4 weeks ago

The shifting plates

New Indian Express  

Earthquakes, tremors and landslides are not new to the North Indian topography, but their increasing frequency is alarming. There is a more natural, internal change that takes place in this magnificent mountain range every year that could soon put a lot of these Indian hill stations ‘under the sheets’ of these mountain ranges. The Indian subcontinent, situated at the collision …

Frontline On Air | Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand is part of a bigger problem in the Himalayas
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Frontline On Air | Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand is part of a bigger problem in the Himalayas

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 03, 2024 13:24 IST - 1 MIN READ In 2023, the Himalayan region has borne witness to an onslaught of disasters, from the sinking of Joshimath in Uttarakhand to floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh, a glacial lake outburst in Sikkim, and the recent tunnel collapse near Barkot in Uttarakhand. While these events may seem disparate, they …

Vantage | What is causing Nepal's deadly earthquakes?
1 year, 1 month ago

Vantage | What is causing Nepal's deadly earthquakes?

Firstpost  

Nepal, India’s neighbouring country, is once again grappling with the devastating impact of a powerful earthquake. The recent earthquake The earthquake that recently struck Western Nepal, particularly in the Jajarkot District, located about 400 kilometres from the capital, Kathmandu, has had a profound impact on the region. Understanding Nepal’s earthquake vulnerability Nepal is no stranger to earthquakes, given its location …

Massive earthquakes can hit Uttarakhand, Himalayan region at any time, warns NGRI chief scientist
1 year, 10 months ago

Massive earthquakes can hit Uttarakhand, Himalayan region at any time, warns NGRI chief scientist

India TV News  

Major earthquake can hit Uttarakhand anytime in the future as the Indian tectonic plat is moving 5 cm every year, a geological expert and leading weather scientist has warned. Chief scientist and seismologist at the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute Dr N Purnachandra Rao while speaking to ANI said, "The Earth's surface comprises various plates that are constantly in motion. …

Micro quakes preventing large-scale event but India prepared for any eventuality: Experts
1 year, 10 months ago

Micro quakes preventing large-scale event but India prepared for any eventuality: Experts

The Hindu  

Micro tremors have been helping release tectonic stress and protecting India from a devastating event, experts said and asserted that the country has seen a paradigm shift towards effective response and mitigation. Turkey saw several powerful earthquakes within 24 hours because the couple zone area was quite big and it took time to break away," Mishra said. "The NDRF and …

Greenpiece: All across Himalayas, India needs to rethink
1 year, 11 months ago

Greenpiece: All across Himalayas, India needs to rethink

Hindustan Times  

The saga of Joshimath sinking is exactly the chronicle of a death foretold. In fact, it’s been foretold for 30 years, from a 1976 MC Misra Commission report to the 2006 report from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology. All across the Himalayas, India needs to rethink. While military needs are paramount, the safety and sustainability for local people must …

Experts vouch for Hyd safety from earthquakes
2 years, 1 month ago

Experts vouch for Hyd safety from earthquakes

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: While tremors of a 6.3-magnitude that struck Nepal were felt till Vijayawada in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday night, seismologists and geophysicists dispelled the possibility of an earthquake having an epicentre in Telangana due to its stable geology. M. Ravi Kumar, chief scientist and head of the seismology department at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, said, “Typically, the …

Climate change adding layer of vulnerability to fragile Himalayas: Experts
2 years, 5 months ago

Climate change adding layer of vulnerability to fragile Himalayas: Experts

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Climate change and ill-planned human interventions in the Himalayas have accentuated the vulnerability of the hills to disasters, resulting in a manifold increase in loss of property and human lives, experts say. It is acting as a force multiplier and making landslides, flash floods and cloudbursts more disastrous,” said Himanshu Thakkar, coordinator of South Asia Network on Dams, …

Climate change and human intervention adding layer of vulnerability to fragile Himalayas, say experts
2 years, 5 months ago

Climate change and human intervention adding layer of vulnerability to fragile Himalayas, say experts

Firstpost  

Several key roads are currently blocked due to landslides triggered by heavy rain in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the northeast New Delhi: Climate change and ill-planned human interventions in the Himalayas have accentuated the vulnerability of the hills to disasters, resulting in a manifold increase in loss of property and human lives, experts say. Several key roads …

The high cost of Himalayan ruin
2 years, 8 months ago

The high cost of Himalayan ruin

Hindustan Times  

The Union environment ministry plans to exempt highway projects critical to the country’s defence or that are of strategic importance near the nation’s borders, from the requirement of prior environment clearance, this newspaper reported on Thursday. Environmentalists and geologists opposed the government’s stand because India’s northern borders fall in the highly eco-sensitive Himalayan region. The impacts are evident: The once-pristine …

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Unscientific Cutting of Himalayan Soil Causing Disasters, Says Former GSI Official
3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Unscientific Cutting of Himalayan Soil Causing Disasters, Says Former GSI Official

News 18  

Unscientific cutting of Himalayan soil by infrastructure projects is disrupting the fragile ecology of the region and causing disasters, warned a former official of the Geological Survey of India on Tuesday. Former additional director general of GSI Tribhuwan Singh Pangti, who was associated with the now demolished Rishiganga hydroelectric project for initial two years as a geologist, said the hydroelectric …

Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas
4 years ago

Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas

The Hindu  

In an article published on the website of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, China announced that it is planning to build a major hydropower project as a part of its 14th Five-Year Plan, on the Yarlung Zangbo River, in Mêdog County in Tibet. The northeast Himalayan bend has experienced several large earthquakes of magnitude 7 and above …

Himalayas poised for a series of big earthquakes, may extend to Delhi, Chandigarh: Study
4 years, 2 months ago

Himalayas poised for a series of big earthquakes, may extend to Delhi, Chandigarh: Study

Hindustan Times  

The entire Himalayan arc is poised to produce a sequence of great earthquakes, and the next big quake -- of the magnitude of 8 or above -- may occur during our lifetimes, according to a study reviewing geological, historical, and geophysical data. “The entire Himalayan arc extending from the eastern boundary of Arunachal Pradesh in the east to Pakistan has …

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