India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests.
Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent times but only far upstream. This ancient Ganges shift occurred in the delta, about 200 kilometers from where the river empties into the Bay of Bengal. Flooding from similar shifts of other rivers today could threaten hundreds of millions of people who live in the modern cities built on river deltas worldwide.
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