It has the sinistral shearing due to the eastward escaping of the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, which is a famous strong earthquake belt in north Tibetan Plateau.

青藏高原东北部向东逃逸而产生左旋剪切运动使该断裂成为一条青藏高原北部强震密集带。

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The Silk Road starts with Chang’an(now Xi’an), travelling west to Wuwei, passing though Hexi Corridor to Dunhuang and it divides into north and south routes to avoid the Tibetan Plateau.

丝绸之路东起长安（现在的西安市），西至武威，途经河西走廊至敦煌，然后被分为北线了南线以此避开青藏高原。

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The Silk Road starts with Chang 'an (now xi 'an), travelling west to Wuwei, passing though Hexi Corridor to Dunhuang and it divides into north and south routes to avoid the Tibetan Plateau.

丝绸之路东起长安(现在的西安市)，西至武威，途经河西走廊至敦煌，然后被分为北线了南线以此避开青藏高原。

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In the north-west and centre of the Tibetan plateau Dr Xu and his team found that particularly high levels of soot had fallen on the glaciers during the 1950s.

ECONOMIST: Pollution in the Himalayas