Thursday, 17 December 2015

Studies of Recent and Ancient Nepal Quakes Yield Surprises

Before-and-after photographs of Nepal's Langtang Valley

The Gorkha, Nepal earthquake in 2015 triggered far fewer landslides and much less damage to glacial lakes than expected; while medieval times earthquakes caused massive landscape changes.





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