Seismic Study Trench Reveals Past Nepal Megaquakes (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Reno

Seismic Study Trench Reveals Past Nepal Megaquakes

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Professor Steve Wesnousky of the College of Science at the University of Nevada, Reno examines layers of rock and soil in a trench in Tribeni, a small town in central Nepal, to study the frequency of large earthquakes on the Himalayan Frontal Fault. In a recently published study, his team concludes this 200-kilometer long section of the earthquake fault could rupture spontaneously in a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake causing more deaths and damage than the 2015 Gorkha earthquake.

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