Multiple ‘MEGA EARTHQUAKES’ could strike ANY DAY putting millions at risk, warn experts
A SERIES of magnitude 8 earthquakes could be triggered at anytime from TODAY according to Government disaster experts.
By JON AUSTIN
Express.co.uk
Wed, Jan 6, 2016
For once, it is not doomsday prophesiers giving false warnings, as disaster management experts of the Union home ministry have warned there could be huge quakes rippling through the Himalayas in north and north east India at any time.
The Indian National Institute of Disaster Management NIDM said recent earthquakes that hit the region, including a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Manipur on January 4, caused tectonic plates to re-rupture, increasing the likelihood of more and bigger tremors.
Even major city Delhi could be affected.
It is outside the seismic Zone V, but in the lesser Zone IV
NIDM director Santosh Kumar said: “The entire Himalayan region is considered to be vulnerable to high intensity earthquakes of a magnitude exceeding 8.0 on the Richter Scale, and in a relatively short span of about 50 years, four such major earthquakes have occurred in the region.”
The warning is made in an NIDM disaster risk profile .
Poor building control across India could leave heavily populated areas devastated, it warned.
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