there are frequent earthquake in the Himalayan region
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There have been some strong earthquakes in the western and central Himalaya in the past 100 years. The Kangra earthquake (1905, Mw7. 8, 20,000 deaths), the Uttarkashi earthquake (1991, Mw6. 8, 768 deaths), the Chamoli earthquake (1999, Mw6.
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Great earthquakes with magnitudes exceeding 8 on the Richter scale have been occurring in the Himalayas every few hundred years. We have geological evidence that earthquakes as large as M=8.7 have occurred many times in the past 2,000 years. ... Two or more regions of the Himalayas must soon rupture in a great earthquake.
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