China’s Yarlung Tsangpo super-dam in Tibet worsens earthquake risk

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb05’25) –Not only is China reckless in starting to build the world’s largest dam in a seismically active zone in Himalayan Tibet, but the dam itself represents an earthquake risk, the ANI news service Feb 4 cited a paper from The Institute for Security and Development Policy Stockholm as saying.

The new dam, being built in Tibet’s Metog County over the Yarlung Tsangpo just before the river enters the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, will have the capacity to generate three times more electric energy than the world’s current largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam in China proper. There are fears that already the Three Gorges Dam has caused earthquakes and landslides...

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