{"id":20010361,"date":"2015-04-30T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2021-01-06T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:49:55","slug":"himalayas-could-be-hit-by-more-powerful-quakes-soon-warn-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/himalayas-could-be-hit-by-more-powerful-quakes-soon-warn-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayas could be hit by more powerful quakes in coming decades, warn scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal faces the risk of further earthquakes and landslides which would heap further misery on the impoverished country after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 killed thousands of people and pulverised the country\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The UN estimates that over 8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, about a quarter of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s disaster is the country\u2019s worst since a 1934 tremor that killed nearly 17,000 people across both India and Nepal, but earthquakes can be much more regular in a region that is one of the most seismically active zones in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Every time the Indian and Eurasian plates collide, severe strain builds up below the Himalayas, stress that is released periodically in the form of massive tremors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/280714_Kathmandu_21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14688 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/280714_Kathmandu_21.png\" alt=\"280714_Kathmandu_2\" width=\"657\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other major recent earthquakes in the densely populated Himalayan region include the 7.6 magnitude Kashmir earthquake in 2006 and the 6.9 magnitude Sikkim earthquake in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Barely two months before last week\u2019s catastrophe, a team of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/11909952\/Geomorphology_reveals_active_d%C3%A9collement_geometry_in_the_central_Himalayan_seismic_gap\">geologists warned<\/a> that the region was overdue for a major earthquake, pointing out that a 700 km-long section of the central Himalayas, home to around 10 million people, had not ruptured over the last 200-500 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jgrb.v120.3\/issuetoc;jsessionid=316DA6ACC94540BE76686C3EF81C0FEE.f03t02\">Another recent study<\/a> by Indian seismologist CP Rajendran had also anticipated a large earthquake in precisely the location where Saturday&#8217;s quake occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s high powerfully quake was probably not big enough to release the underground stress that had been building up for centuries, meaning another \u00a0big earthquake is likely to occur in the next few decades, Rajendran told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\">thethirdpole.net. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the after-shocks in Nepal could continue for a month, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landslide damage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In places like Nepal, landslides can be as deadly as the earthquake quake itself, causing up to half of the casualties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Himalayas are the landslide hotspot of the world,\u201d says Professor Dave Petley, pro-vice chancellor at the University of East Anglia who has studied landslides in Nepal for many years. \u201cThis is because of the combination of active tectonics, which are pushing up the mountains making them taller and steeper, weak soils because of the high rates of weathering, high levels of monsoon rainfall, occasional large earthquakes and the presence of people (i.e high population density),\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The steep topography in the area of the epicentre, and the high intensity of shaking mean that thousands of landslides are likely to have been triggered by the earthquake, Robert Parker, a researcher with Cardiff University&#8217;s School of Earth and Ocean Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-32501206\">told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/04\/29\/langtang-1\/\">devastation in rural Nepal<\/a> is only just becoming apparent, as bad weather has hampered relief workers and helicopters trying to reach the worst affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports trickling in from survivors are chilling. Landslides and avalanches appear to have wiped out entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cumoderntibet\/posts\/1645635858992946\">villages in the Langtang<\/a> valley, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/04\/29\/langtang-1\/\">Sindhupalchowk<\/a>, Rasuwa and Dhading districts near the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14689\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/map.png\" alt=\"map\" width=\"815\" height=\"719\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Houses in rural Nepal are made of thin walls (most often stone or adobe) and heavy roofs, all of which have very low resistance to earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists fear that the monsoon rains may trigger further landslides in the area where rocks have already been loosened and dislocated by the quake. One of the biggest concerns is temporary dams that can build up when a landslip blocks a river&#8217;s natural course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will expect to see existing landslides reactivate, loose debris move as damaging debris flows, and new landslides on slopes weakened by the shaking.\u00a0 There is a need to take measures ahead of the monsoon if at all possible,\u201d said Petley.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists also say the earthquake that triggered avalanches in the Everest region may have destabilised glacial lakes there, which could burst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-32501206\">and submerge<\/a> areas downstream.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Large dams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dams and other large infrastructure are particularly vulnerable to collapse, triggering further landslides and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>K.S. Valdiya, professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currentscience.ac.in\/Volumes\/106\/12\/1658.pdf\">long cautioned against<\/a> building large dams in the seismically active Himalayas that are regularly ravaged by excessive rains and landslides.<\/p>\n<p>Excavations for quarrying, mining, and road building can destabilise slopes, triggering continuous rock falls, landslides and debris avalanches, said Valdiya, writing in a June 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currentscience.ac.in\/Volumes\/106\/12\/1658.pdf\">report in <em>Current Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the collapse of a dam near the China-Nepal border in last week\u2019s earthquake should prompt a rethink across the Himalayan countries about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/chinese-dam-workers-stranded-after-nepal-quake\/\">wisdom of building dams<\/a> on seismic fault lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nepal earthquake highlights the vulnerability of the entire Himalayan region as scientists warn more major tremors could follow in the next few decades, underlining the risks to infrastructure such as dams, roads and buildings.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20000187,"featured_media":20014684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[761,764],"tags":[20000192,20000022,20000628],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000113],"class_list":["post-20010361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-nature","tag-disasters","tag-himalayas","tag-science","country-nepal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Himalayas could be hit by more powerful quakes in coming decades, warn scientists | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nepal earthquake highlights the vulnerability of the entire Himalayan region as scientists warn more major tremors could follow in the next few decades, underlining the risks to infrastructure such as dams, roads and buildings.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/himalayas-could-be-hit-by-more-powerful-quakes-soon-warn-scientists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Himalayas could be hit by more powerful quakes in coming decades, warn scientists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nepal earthquake highlights the vulnerability of the entire Himalayan region as scientists warn more major tremors could follow in the next few decades, underlining the risks to infrastructure such as dams, roads and buildings.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/himalayas-could-be-hit-by-more-powerful-quakes-soon-warn-scientists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dialogue Earth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-30T08:48:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-06T16:49:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1E1A7014-copy-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"T.V. 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