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

Chinese 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,...

By Holly Chik