Himalayas
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India orders security audit of tunnels after collapse in Himalayas
Summary: Indian Highway Authority to do safety audit of 29 tunnels Audit report to be submitted in seven days - govt statement Construction spree leading to accidents, say environmentalists Members of rescue teams use an auger inside a tunnel where workers have been trapped for ten days after the tunnel collapsed in Uttarkashi, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Shankar Prasad Nautiyal The National Highways Authority…
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It turned out that the glaciers of the Himalayas are melting faster than scientists thought
(ORDO NEWS) — Past estimates of the rate of ice melt in the Himalayas are likely underestimates. Zhang Guoqing and his colleagues found that the actual loss of ice mass is about 6.5% more. Basically, the error was rooted in an incorrect estimate of the volume of ice hidden under water – in the so-called ice lakes. Such reservoirs arise in hollows during the melting of the glacier. The most…
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Indian scientist did not rule out earthquakes in the Himalayas
(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…
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A city in the Himalayas is sinking. Walls cracked in hundreds of houses
(ORDO NEWS) — Authorities in the Himalayan city of Joshimat, 490 kilometers northeast of New Delhi, have halted construction work and begun relocating hundreds of residents to makeshift shelters after a temple collapsed and more than 600 houses cracked due to subsidence. The soil subsidence was caused by heavy rains and intensive development. Scientists and regulators name the two main reasons for the destruction of the city: heavy rains and…
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Scientists discover lost range of ‘supermountains’ three times longer than the Himalayas
(ORDO NEWS) — The destruction of these ancient mountains may have fueled Earth‘s biggest evolution booms. Twice in our planet’s history, colossal mountain ranges that towered as tall as the Himalayas and stretched thousands of miles farther reared their craggy heads out of the Earth, splitting ancient supercontinents in two. Geologists call them the “supermountains.” “There’s nothing like these two supermountains today,” Ziyi Zhu, a postdoctoral student at The Australian…
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Bigfoot has polar bear DNA
(ORDO NEWS) — Bayan Sykes, a specialist at Oxford University, studied the DNA of Bigfoot and Polar Bears. As a result, the genetic material turned out to be very similar. The basis was the wool cover of a creature that was killed three decades ago in the Himalayas. During the analysis, it turned out that the creature that represents the stuffed animal today has the DNA of a polar bear,…
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Himalayas: dangerous fault was discovered, threatening catastrophic earthquakes
(ORDO NEWS) — In the southeastern part of Nepal, scientists have discovered a dangerous rift . It can cause a massive earthquake in this densely populated area. This discovery was made by Canadian researchers from the University of Albert during exploration work to find oil in the area. Moreover, they found that the front tectonic zone of the Himalayan ridge is 40 kilometers south of what was previously thought. This…