Flooding from a similar earthquake today could threaten about 170 million people in India and Bangladesh who live in low-lying regions nearby.
India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests.
While doing fieldwork nearby in 2018, the team decided to check out the depression in person, including taking samples for dating. Then, good luck struck. Sometimes referred to as “sand blows,” these features are very difficult to explain but for an earthquake, says John Shaw, a sedimentologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville who was not involved in the new study. “They just don’t happen for no reason.”
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Huge earthquake 2,500 years ago rerouted the Ganges River, study suggestsSascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe.
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