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The support provided by the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR-NGRI) is gratefully acknowledged. I am also grateful to National Academy of Sciences, India for the Platinum Jubilee Senior Scientist position that is being availed at the CSIR-NGRI. A special thanks to Dr. R. Jayangonda-perumal for useful discussions and for preparing Figure 1 used in this communication.
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Harsh K Gupta is currently NASI Platinum Jubilee Scientist at CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad. He has been a Member of National Disaster Management Authority; Secretary to GOI, Department of Ocean Development; Director-NGRI; VC Cochin University of S & T; and Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He is known for discovering enormously thick crust below Himalaya and Tibet Plateau region; generating criteria to discriminate artificial water reservoir triggered earthquakes from normal earthquakes. Credited for spearheading establishment of tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean and setting up of India’s first wintering station ‘Dakshin Gangotri’ in record time of one Antarctic summer during 1983–84. Recently (2021) he has edited the 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics.
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Gupta, H.K. Himalayan Seismic Belt, Seismic Gaps and Related Issues. J Geol Soc India 99, 1187–1190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-023-2450-6
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