A major tremor could hit Nepal’s Gorkha district within years rather than the centuries that usually pass between quakes,say researchersA massive underground faultline that ruptured final year, causing a killer earthquake in Nepal, and is still under tremendous strain underneath Kathmandu,a study said on Monday.
This meant another major tremor could happen in an area domestic to more than 1 million people within years or decades rather than the centuries that typically elapse between quakes, researchers wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Source: theguardian.com