The Ratu River Expedition

The Earth's crust is divided into about a dozen tectonic plates reshaping the surface of the Earth without anyone on the surface noticing the movement. The Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world, stand on the fault line between the two plates: the Eurasian Plate and the Indian Plate. The two have been moving closer to one another for the last fifty million years. Every several decades, however, there is a natural disaster, such as the earthquakes in Nepal in 1934 and in 2015 in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The film introduces the work of a team of geologists, led by Judith Hubbard, who set off to Nepal in 2014 in order to explore one of the largest fault lines on the planet. The expedition set out to collect data in the dry riverbed of the Ratu river with the help of a special Envirovibe seismic vehicle. Their analysis could create a clear image as to what hides under the surface and, therefore, effectively predict when and which places would be tectonically active in the future. (Academia Film Olomouc)