UTTARAKHAND NATURAL DISASTER
The Uttarakhand Disaster had been officially termed a natural
calamity caused by cloudbursts and unprecedented heavy monsoon rainfall.However, the true causes of the epic tragedy was
unchecked growth of tourism, unchecked
rapid increase of roads, hotels, shops
and multistory housing in ecologically and fragile areas and unplanned construction were
the reason for landslide.
Also Rapid growth of hydroelectricity dams that disrupt
water balances and this also triggered the action of disaster. More than 220
power and mining projects are running in 14 river valleys in Uttarakhand.
Several rivers are being diverted through tunnels for these projects leading to
major disasters in the state. Deforestation is also one of the most important factors
of Uttarakhand disaster, which caused factor of Uttarakhand disaster, which
cause frequently landslide.
NEPAL EARTHQUAKE
Two tectonic plates meet beneath the Himalayas along a fault line. The India plate is moving north at around 45 mm a year and pushing under the Eurasian plate. Over time that is how the Himalayas were created.This was so called natural reason but in reality man made deforestation and unplanned construction was the indirect reason of Nepal earthquake.
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