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Indian Union home ministry's disaster management experts have warned of a
bigger catastrophe, earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.2 or greater on
the Richter scale which may hit the already ruptured Himalayan region, reports The Times of India. They say quakes with higher intensity than the one that struck Manipur on Monday
are likely to rock the region in future. The tectonic shift a series of
these recent earthquakes have caused in the region -- Manipur 6.7 (Jan
2016), Nepal 7.3 (May 2015) and Sikkim 6.9 (2011) -- have re-ruptured
the plates that had already developed cracks during previous temblors.
This has led to conditions which might trigger multiple earthquakes
which may go up to 8.0 in magnitude.
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