Tibet confronts 7.1 on Richter scale tectonic killing 53 persons with impact in Nepal too. 60 injured
A major earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale has been reported today in Tibet , now in Western China killing at least 53 persons and injuring several others including lost to properties on a big scale.
This dreaded tectonic upheaval in Western China’s Tibet region was reportedly ten kilometres downwards in Tibet quite away from its capital Lhasa but near Uttarakhand and Nepal.
Uttarakhand is also in Zone 5 likely to witness earthquakes in future up to fifty years from tomorrow may be now, in between or in decades as per the prediction of earth scientists and seismologists though no fixed time accorded, though would be on more than 8 magnitude in the Richter scale even 9, adversely affecting Delhi too.
Today Tibet earthquake was revealed by the United States Geological Survey measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale with ten kilometres deep epic centre while the Chinese recorded it at 6.8 on Richter scale reports AP.
According to an Indian Express report the epic centre was where the Indian and Eurasia plates clash and cause uplifts in the Himalayan mountains.
Thankfully, the epic centre of the Tibet earthquake though powerful couldn’t effect much dangerously apart from thirty six tragic deaths because it took place about 380 kilometres away from the hectic Tibetian capital Lhasa.
This was so because the radius of the epic centre of the earthquake which was nearly five kilometres away there were very little rather negligible people living there.
The impact of the tremors were felt by the panic ridden residents of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu who came out of their houses in panic running here and there.
According to the United States Geological Survey’s tectonic summery : The January 7, 2025, M7.1 earthquake near Xizang, China, occurred as the result of normal faulting at shallow depth north of the boundary between the Eurasia and Indian plates.
Focal mechanism solutions indicate that rupture occurred on a roughly north-south striking fault, dipping moderately to either to the east or to the west. Continental collision between the India and Eurasia plates drives uplift of the Himalayan Mountains.
Focal mechanism solutions of this earthquake indicate this event was associated with a normal fault oriented roughly perpendicular to the plate boundary north of the Himalayan Mountains within the Eurasian plate.
While commonly plotted as points on maps, earthquakes of this size are more appropriately described as slip over a larger fault area. Normal faulting events of the size of the January 7, 2025 earthquake are typically about 45 km by 20 km (length x width).
The region near the India and Eurasia plate boundary has a history of large earthquakes. In the past century, there have been 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 and greater within 250 km of the January 7, 2025, earthquake. This includes the 2015 M7.3 Nepal earthquake, located about 160 km to the southwest and the 1934 M8.0 earthquake, located about 160 to the south-southwest. The 2015 M7.3 Nepal earthquake was an aftershock of the April 25, 2015 M7.8 Nepal earthquake. This sequence of 2015 events resulted in 8,669 fatalities and widespread damage.
