The recent avalanche near Draupadi Ka Danda-II peak that killed at least 26 mountaineers in Uttarkashi district has triggered a debate among scientists and experts about the contributing factors. While there is no unanimous view on the possible reasons, most of them feel attributing the avalanche to a mild earthquake that rocked Uttarkashi two days earlier was incorrect. The tremor, measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale, hit Uttarkashi on October 2. It was too mild and its epicentre too far from the avalanche site, said a scientist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here. Images of the topography of the peak going around the social media! "The mild-intensity earthquake occurred two days before the avalanche and its epicentre was in a village whose aerial distance from the pe...
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