Dengerous Landslide at syanjha bhalupahad
9:24 AM
The earthquake in Nepal was so violent
it moved mountains. Satellite imagery shows that the parts of the
Himalayas sank three feet—and the area around it as much as five feet—as
tectonic plates snapped under extreme pressure. But the mountains will
regain their height, slowly but surely, thanks to the geologic forces at
work.
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite captured
before and after images of the area hit by the earthquake. The image
below show how the Eurasian plate bent, the land falling in some places
(yellow) and rising in others (blue). The area of the Himalaya’s
Langtang range sank by three feet. Everest, which was further away from
the earthquake, sank about an inch.The Himalayas were formed, after all,
by the Indian plate pushing into the Eurasian plate. And the mountains
are still growing thanks to the constant pressure at the fault. In the
earthquake, though, the plate under Kathmandu snapped like a rubber
band, causing the opposite to happen. Tim Wright, professor of satellite
geodesy at the University of Leeds, explained what happened to the BBC.
0 comments