A network of points is currently being developed by Jeff Freymueller in southern and eastern Tibet. The Himalaya are the result of an ongoing collision between India and Asia. Slip is directed approimately normal to the arc. The curved line indicates the locus of maximum contractive strain and maximum uplift.
Red arrows are slip vectors of recent moderate earthquakes.
The red line represents the path of a leveling line between India and Tibet. Our current projects involve installing dense arrays of points across the Himalaya that link to points in southern Tibet installed by Jeff Freymueller at the University of Alaska. Point spacings of as little as 10 km are selected for episodic occupation. Remeasurement of these points are undertaken on foot because no roads exist in the region of maximum deformation. The arrays are designed to locate the position and depth of the point where India starts to creep beneath the Himalaya.