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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4126809.stm
First of all .. my introduction..
My name is Syed Emad and I am from Abbottabad Pakistan. I have done Graduation in Earth Sciences from Bahria University Islamabad and now working as a Geoscientist in Schlumberger Oil Services in Saudi Arabia.. my major work is related to Oil exploration or you can say majors in research.
Let me be very straight and clear to all of u that the number of researches on Margallah hills have been done by great Scientists of Pakistan and from many other countries. As I told u that I was living in Islamabad (studying) ,, so we (class) often had field tours on margallah hills to study the nature of these mountains. But we always follow the research papers of those scientists like Kazmi et’al , Munir et’al etc..
Secondly, I have heard few days before that Islamabad is out of that danger zone as it was considered before.. it means that the scientists have discovered that Islamabad is not under a big threat of having an earthquake (Inshallah). Pray to Allah all the times.
Now we have confusion about margallah hills.. If u stand on one spur (one steep flank of mountain) of margallah hills and u start following the sequence of mountains or crossing every mountain in the north… u will cross india and afghanistan and ultimately u will end up on Himalayas. Margallah hills are the start or a par of same sequence of Himalayas.
Allah Almighty has created everything in the world and has given ages to all of the things.. no matter it is living or non living .. like humans are recognized on the basis of ages same is the case of earth.. earth has an age of 4.5 billions years now. And all the mountains and land in it have younger and older ages.. and by the rule of nature the older age is lying beneath the younger one same as numbering system..
1(younger)
2 (older than 1 but younger than 3)
3 (older than 2 but younger than 4)
4 (older than 3 but younger than etc..)
etc..
may be u have an idea that earth is composed of layers and we see only one layer on which we drive cars and walk .. these layers are following the same principle of numbering system.. ie. The older one is lying down and younger one is taking position on it.. and we get the age of these layers or rocks by radioactivity and studying the history of the earth like paleontology.
The case is opposite in terms of Margallah hills… u see the ground of red soil in rawal pindi and Islamabad. And suddenly u get black or dark gray color Margallah hills in the north. Now there is the difference of age in both of them.. this red soil is younger in age than margallah hills. and as I mentioned the numbering system, the sequence should follow that the red soil should be overlying the margallah hills and margallah hills should be underlying this red soil.
Normal Case
1(younger)
2 (older than 1 but younger than 3)
3 (older than 2 but younger than 4)
4 (older than 3 but younger than etc..)
etc..
Hope u got an idea that if nature stabilize itself then margallah hills have to go under the red soil. means Allah Forbid there could be a big disaster and the Islamabad can overturn and can vanish.. this was the complexity of margallah hills. we call this region as MBT (main boundary thrust) …
I haven’t used the pure terms of geology which can confuse u very easily.. it is the most simplest description which I can tell u.. .and rest is pure geology and I think u better not go in details for that.. especially PLATE TECTONICS .. if u get time then search on internet and have a look on the plate tectonic Theory on Indian Plate..
At the end I would say that plzzz pray to Allah who has created earth.. and who Has created earthquake and Allah is the only one who can stop them.. no machine can detect earthquake and stop it prior to its shake.. so don’t concentrate on any rumor.
May Allah show us the right path….
Best regards..
Syed Emad
Exploration Geoscientist
Seismic Specialist
Schlumberger Oil Services
although we cant really say to what extent these emails are legit, but it makes you think and the guy has good points!
anyways i just thought i will share, tell me what ya'all think.
GOD BLESS!