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

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Chinese geologists warn that an active fault line beneath the world’s largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet jeopardizes the dam’s structural integrity. The risk stems from a fracture in the Earth’s crust in the eastern Himalayan region.

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,...