Extensive groundwater extraction in the Indo-Gangetic Plain over the last five decades has “significantly” contributed to the killer April 25, 2015, Nepal temblor and “probably all earthquakes” in the region beneath the Himalayan arc, Indian scientists claim.Researchers at NIT Rourkela;
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad; and National Centre for Seismology (NCS), ministry of earth sciences, New Delhi, have gathered evidence of the far-reaching consequences of human actions: how groundwater depletion can “advance the clock” of temblors occurring in the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), under the Himalayan arc where earthquakes originate.
