(ORDO NEWS) — Purnachandra Rao, Chief Scientist at the National Institute of Geosciences, warned on Feb. 22 that India could face devastating earthquakes in the Himalayas.
“The surface of the Earth is made up of various plates that are constantly in motion.
The Indian plate is moving about 5 cm per year, which leads to the accumulation of stress along the Himalayas, increasing the likelihood of a larger earthquake,” ANI quoted him as saying.
According to the scientist, this threat is especially high in the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Earlier that day, Yulia Shevnina, an expert in the field of automation and process control of the NTI Competence Center in the field of “Sensorics” on the basis of the National Research University of Electronic Technology, told Izvestia that the main difficulty in predicting earthquakes is not in collecting data on changes in seismic parameters, but in their correct analysis.
She added that “Athenian scientist Konstantininos Sinolakis predicts a mega-quake in Greece with a magnitude of 8.5 on the Richter scale. Professor Kostas Papazakos makes similar assumptions.”
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