{"id":367324,"date":"2026-07-13T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=367324"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:17:01","slug":"medog-dam-and-paizhen-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/medog-dam-and-paizhen-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Medog Dam and Paizhen Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Chinese geologists have warned that the under-construction Medog Hydropower Project is being built above the active Paizhen Fault, raising structural safety concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Medog Dam<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_367329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367329\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-367329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-TH-3.jpg?resize=408%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Medog Dam\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-TH-3.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-TH-3.jpg?resize=768%2C434&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-TH-3.jpg?w=862&amp;ssl=1 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; TH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Medog Hydropower Project<\/strong>\u00a0is a planned<strong> 60,000-MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric project<\/strong> on the <strong>Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0It is located in <strong>Medog County, Tibet, near the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River<\/strong> and <strong>about 50 km from China&#8217;s border with Arunachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scale:<\/strong>\u00a0It is expected to become the<strong> world\u2019s largest hydropower project<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capacity:<\/strong>\u00a0It has a planned generation <strong>capacity of 60,000 MW<\/strong> and is expected to produce <strong>around 300 billion Kwh of electricity annually.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Timeline:<\/strong>\u00a0China <strong>approved the project in December 2024,<\/strong> construction <strong>began in July 2025<\/strong>, and commercial <strong>operations are targeted for 2033.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Paizhen Fault<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_367334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367334\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-367334\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-ZEE-News.jpg?resize=300%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Paizhen Fault\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-ZEE-News.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-ZEE-News.jpg?resize=1024%2C568&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-ZEE-News.jpg?resize=768%2C426&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Source-ZEE-News.jpg?w=1167&amp;ssl=1 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ZEE News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Paizhen Fault<\/strong>\u00a0is an <strong>active geological fault<\/strong> located <strong>beneath the Medog dam site<\/strong> in the reservoir area on the<strong> Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Faults<\/strong> are <strong>fractures in earth&#8217;s crust<\/strong> where <strong>rocks<\/strong> on either side of the crack have <strong>slid past each other<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tectonic Origin:<\/strong> It was created by the <strong>ongoing collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Active Since:<\/strong>\u00a0It has remained <strong>highly active since the Pleistocene epoch<\/strong>, (<strong>Ice Age) <\/strong>and geological evidence shows that it <strong>continued to remain active into the Holocene epoch,<\/strong> with movement recorded as recently as 9,500 years ago.\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Milin area of Tibet in 2017<\/strong> near the <strong>northern end of the fault<\/strong>, confirming its continuing seismic activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concerns:<\/strong>\u00a0It may <strong>weaken the foundation-bearing capacity of the area<\/strong> and increase the <strong>risk of earthquakes, landslides, slope collapses, and structural damage to the Medog Hydropower Project.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Chinese geologists have warned that the under-construction Medog Hydropower Project is being built above the active Paizhen Fault, raising structural safety concerns. About Medog Dam Medog Hydropower Project\u00a0is a planned 60,000-MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric project on the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River. Location:\u00a0It is located in Medog County, Tibet, near the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/medog-dam-and-paizhen-fault\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medog Dam and Paizhen Fault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-367324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}