A brief note
at Nature News explains that if the Himalayas have a repeat of the very big earthquakes of the 16th century, the death toll today (due to population rise) could be huge:
A quake in the western Himalayas in 1555 may have been as large as
magnitude 8. Today, a quake of this magnitude could kill 221,000 people
and injure 884,000. Meanwhile, the 1505 earthquake that struck the
central Himalayas may have measured as much as magnitude 8.7. A repeat
could kill 599,000 people and injure more than one million.
No comments:
Post a Comment