Further north, in the trans-Himalayan region, locals continue to complain about snow leopards preying on their livestock.
Furthermore, in the past half-century the Himalayan region has seen fewer powerful earthquakes than might be predicted from historical records.
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It is all the harder in the Himalayan region, with hidden underground faults that are poorly monitored by seismic instruments.
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The creator of the app, Joe Shrimpton, is a trekking aficionado, with 19 years of trekking the Himalayan region under his belt.
The website is devoted to protecting the environment in the Himalayan region.
Yet another said he had only heard of Kashmir before this and wasn't particularly interested in Pakistan's conflict with India over this Himalayan region.
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Most of Nepal's national parks and protected areas are either in the Himalayan region or in the Tarai area, the southern plain land that border India.
The three-day workshop will bring together experts, policy makers, local stakeholders, and managers of Natural Heritage Properties from Asian countries, mainly from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
Before the 1960s Imja was a glacier, but a recent temperature increase in the Himalayan region melted it into a substantial lake, which glistens under the shadow of the awe-inspiring Everest range.
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Police officer Abdul Gani Mir said one suspected militant also was killed in the fighting 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in the disputed Himalayan region.
The question of whether to build anew, and where, could be asked not just in respect of those areas affected by the latest quake but across the entire Himalayan region.
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In this respect, the legacy of IGCP 567 will be a strong community of practitioners who are well disposed towards archaeoseismology, advocating a holistic approach that will eventually contribute to the establishment of an essential earthquake culture in the Alpine-Himalayan region, occasionally confronted with the inevitable earthquake catastrophe.
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But overall, the report's conclusion is that observations need to be stepped up to enable better projections of the future for the estimated 210 million people living in the region and the 1.3 billion living in river basins supplied by Himalayan meltwater.
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