Fascinating video but somewhat spoiled by the hard sell infomercial for 'Ground news' at the end.

Relevant to this and the recent earthquake hitting Myanmar (and China) is that large dams are known to have the potential cause earthquakes. They substantially change the pressure upon the ground rock. Given the experience of the nations downstream from the Three Gorges Dams it is not surprising Bangladesh and India are concerned about this new mega dam three time larger than the Three Gorges project!

We attribute climatic variation to overall anthropogenic co2 emmissions (based mostly on measurements taken since the 1970s, yet we barely question the overall feasibility of persistantly altering the earth's thermal and hydraulic transport system through large-scale geoengineering projects?

Northern Vietnam flooded this year, Cambodia and Laos seem to be increasingly susceptible to flooding over the years. In 2008 an earthquake collapsed 7000 school buldings and a large part of China was physically affected, offices buildings swayed in Bangkok.

Attempting to control a river that traverses the Tibetan plateau with gates and locks three times the depth of the Grand Canyon is ambitious. How accurate are current earthquake and climatic modelling prediction systems? There are a lot of people living in this part of the world.