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Subject The Hindu Kush mountains and one dangerous mountain pass

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Original Message A Massive 'Blob' of Rock Stretching Under Asia..Might Be Triggering Hundreds of Earthquakes

The Hindu Kush mountain range — which stretches about 500 miles (800 kilometers) along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan — shudders with more than 100 earthquakes at a magnitude of 4.0 or greater every year.

A new study suggests that this is because of a long "blob" of rock slowly dripping away from the range's subterranean underbelly and into the hot, viscous mantle below.
This hypothesis has previously been used to explain similar seismic activity underneath the Carpathian Mountains in central Europe.

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