Location of the Dam on a Fault line 

The proposed KBD site is situated in an area known to have fault lines and fractures.

The LANDSAT and SPOT imagery of the proposed KBD site indicates a right lateral fault known as Kalabagh Fault and another known as Kharjawan Fault, cutting the KBD site NE-SW between Indus and Kharjawan Nala on the Right Bank.

Geologically, the tectonic plates known as Pak Plate and the Asian Plate (Tibetan Plateau) are both greatly compressed and tectonically active.

It is a known fact that the compression and collision of moving earth plates cause mountains to rise, and the Himalayan and Karakoram Mountains continue to rise by a few millimeters each year due to the same compression. Such a phenomenon is bound to create instability in the area to a substantial degree, thereby making the dam structure prone to seismic damages in future. 

Further it has also been observed that large dams induce earthquakes, because of their large water masses, and plays an important role in intensifying the impacts of small-scale earthquakes. 

Thus the construction of Kalabagh Dam at the proposed location is to play with the dangerous consequences of earthquakes, and putting the life of downstream inhabitants at stake.

N S

Alluvium

Reference : M.Yonus Article in Frontier Post; June 25, 1998

Reference:: :

KBD; The Sindh Case by Kazi Abrar, 1998

Article in Frontier Post by M.Yonus on 25-06-1998