Everest Base Camp Gets New Earthquake Monitoring Station
Posted on: Monday, 19 October 2009, 13:25 CDT
A Chinese official said Monday that scientists have begun operating an earthquake monitoring station at the foot of Mount Everest in an effort to learn more about the world's highest peak, The Associated Press reported.
Shang Rongbo, a deputy director with the regional seismology bureau, said the station, which began operating over the weekend, is located at about 14,000 feet in Tibet's Tingri County.
The station will support real-time collection of data about seismic events along the China-Nepal border, sending it by satellite to research centers elsewhere, Shang said.
Everest is located where the Eurasian plate abuts the Indian plate, which formed the towering Himalayas after a collision between the two.
Over the years, many severe earthquakes have hit the region. Minor quakes have frequently hit the Tibetan plateau, and a massive 7.9-magnitude quake struck the Himalayan foothills in Sichuan province in May 2008, leaving nearly 90,000 people missing or dead.
However, due to an increasing numbers of visitors, China has been boosting infrastructure around Everest.
Officials there have paved an 81-mile dirt track from Tingri to the Everest base camp, and a cell phone tower now provides coverage all the way to the summit.
There is also has a high-rise hotel, a police station - and a rising crime rate near the mountain range.
Source: RedOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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Posted by JOHN DELANO on 10/20/2009, 11:40 China has 1,000 + gps readings showing that the himallayian plateau 1/2 of the Asian continent [ the second highest continent on th planet behind Anartica] in moving 4 inches per year to the northeast, sliding over the earth\'s mantle below. . This is a true continuous crustal sliding event proven by these 1,000 gps readings . My research of 34 years can prove this is the \"true polar wandering\" fact that noone accepts. This is Plate Tectonics greatest disservice to the sciences. One by one hundreds of scientist are finding problems with the Plate Tectonic theory. It is as bad as believing in a flat earth. \"The Origin Of Mountains\" my self published book explains it all[ see ulu.com ] . The crust of the planet is spliting at the Java- Sunda trench. This is the major part of the area referred to as \"the ring of fire\". In my self published book I explain how this area is at an equal distance near the middle of the mid-point of the two pivot points of the true polar wanderings of the earths crust. The two pivot points are Botswana, South Africa, and 12.500 miles away the Hawaiian Islands. |
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