‘There will be a day when we will be able to predict quakes’

Enough strain has accumulated in the Nepal region to cause a great earthquake. But how big it is going to be and when it is going to occur is a big question, says Vineet K Gahalaut, scientist with National Geophysical Research Institute of CSIR, in an email interview with Kundan Pandey. Gahalaut also elaborates on the gaps in understanding and predicting earthquakes in the Himalayan region and the work being done by his team in this regard 

 

 

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India Environment Portal Resources :

• The 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks
• Earthquake source characteristics along the arcuate Himalayan belt: Geodynamic implications
• Clusters of moderate size earthquakes along Main Central Thrust (MCT) in Himalaya

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