CALCUTTA: The Himalayas are rising 6 cm annually due to gradual movement of inter-continental plates making the region earthquake-prone according to Pro Bandopadhyay of the International Center for integrated mountain development Kathmandu.
Prof. Bandopadhyay said the rise signified that the region had been becoming active. The Himalayan frontal arc ranging from Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India to Afghanistan had been experiencing occasional tremors the last being in Soviet Armenia which was devastated by an earthquake in 1989 he said.
Surveys in the mountain development center in Kathmandu indicated that the: “fragile” structure of the Himalaya had been “slowing moving’ with the Indian Plate putting pressure on the Tibetan plate resulting in the rise of the Ranges height.
He said that the dekesce been “unstable”
Surveys in the mountain development center in Kathmandu indicated that the “fragile” structure of the Himalaya had” been “slowing moving’, with the Indian” plate putting pressure on the Tibetan plate resulting in the rise of the Ranges height:
He said that the Himalaya had always been “unstable” geologically, unlike the Aps, Andes and the Ural mountains he said that its water resources the massive snow caps—might be dwindling in ‘the near future due to global warming.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 20, 1991
