An underground rupture 11km below Kathmandu is continuously building up more pressure as India continues to collide into Nepal, a new study has found, indicating that another major earthquake may take place earlier than expected.This meant another major tremor could happen in an area home to more than a million people within years or decades rather than the centuries that typically elapse between quakes, researchers wrote in the journal Nature Geo science. Lead author John Elliott of Oxford University said the rupture, shooting upward through the fault line from deep below, stopped abruptly 11 kilometres beneath Nepal’s capital, leaving an unbroken, upper portion nearer the surface. High-resolution satellite images revealed that “only a small amount of the earthquake reached the surface,” he said in a press statement.
