Active fault line threatens world’s biggest hydropower project, Chinese geologists warn

Source: China – South China Morning PostChinese geologists have determined that an active fault line directly beneath the world’s largest hydropower project poses a threat to the mega-dam now being built on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River.
The scientists said a fracture in the Earth’s crust in the eastern Himalayan region would significantly affect the integrity of the massive hydropower project’s infrastructure.
In a paper published last month in the Chinese-language journal Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology,…Read More

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