Ancient Himalyan temples reveal signs of past earthquakes - Shimla Now

Dehradun, July 27 (IANS) Based on studies of ancient ruins like tilted pillars, cracked steps and sliding stone canopies of the 7th-century A.D. temples in northwestern India, seismologists have revealed the extent of some of the largest historic earthquakes in the region. The seismologists studied the signs of destructive earthquakes imprinted upon the ancient stone and wooden temples in Chamba and Bharmour -- towns in the Himachal Pradesh district, within the Kashmir "seismic gap" of the northwest Himalayan range. The type of damage sustained by Chamba temples suggested that they may have been affected by the 1555 earthquake, while the Bharmour temples were damaged by the 1905 quake, the seismologists said.

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