Natural Disasters

‘Many seismic gaps in Himalayas capable of producing powerful earthquakes’

In an interview to Kundan Pandey, Supriyo Mitra, associate professor with the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, explains how we came to understand earthquakes and why trying to predict them is not a useful scientific goal

 
By Kundan Pandey
Published: Tuesday 12 May 2015

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