A massive earthquake in Assam in 1950 triggered long-lasting damage. The following years saw massive floods of greater intensity than usual. While new areas started getting flooded, some of the flood-prone areas started drying up.
Researchers have traced the great Assam earthquake of 1950 (8.6 in Richter Scale) to complex tectonics of the North Eastern fringe of the Indian Plate in the Eastern Himalaya and the Indo-Burma Ranges (IBR) and the interactions between the two, which can produce deeper earthquakes in IBR and crustal ones in the Eastern Himalaya. They have suggested that this seismic structure
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