तिब्बत के डिंगरी में भूकंप की घटना पर तिब्बती धर्मगुरु दलाईलामा ने जताया दुख

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00:00earthquake in Tingri, south of Tibet, which borders closely with Nepal and India.

00:08As of reports up to now, some 95 people have died because of this earthquake and some 130

00:17people have been injured so far and many houses have also been destroyed because of this earthquake.

00:24And everybody knows that the Tibetan plateau was formed because of the tectonic shift between

00:30the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate and Tibet is highly prone to earthquakes.

00:37This is one of the six major earthquakes that happened inside Tibet over the last one century.

00:44And that is why building of dams on Tibetan rivers, including the one that China announced

00:51recently in December about the dam in Methok at the Great Bend on the Tsangpo River or

01:00the Brahmaputra, which is also called Siang in India, this dam is supposed to produce

01:08three times higher electricity than the Three Gorges Dam, which is the biggest in the world,

01:13but is also based in China, might have serious consequences to the downstream countries including

01:23India and Bangladesh, so this earthquake is also a pointer to the fact that anything could

01:29happen on Tibetan plateau and major developmental activities like dams and infrastructure construction

01:39should take environmental impacts into consideration and mitigate future destructive nature of

01:49these constructions, so I think these two instances are different, separate, but also

01:58interlinked in the sense that the earthquake is a message to major developmental activities

02:04inside the Tibetan plateau.

02:05So what kind of situation is there right now?

02:10Right now we are still collecting information, it's very difficult to get information from

02:14inside Tibet, some pictures have come out, but every time an event happens, particularly

02:21political events, Chinese government always make sure that these reports don't go out

02:27of Tibet, so anybody who sends information out of Tibet is targeted by the Chinese authorities,

02:33so even in this case people will be careful in sending information out, but because of

02:40social media these days, since this is a non-political issue, hopefully news will be more available

02:50on the earthquake.