Comparison between the tectonic movements of Nanga Parbat- Haramosh Massif and Mt. Everest

The initial results obtained by an international research project named 'Monitoring of the horizontal movements of the Nanga Parbat Haramosh Massif', funded by the Italian Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs through the Ev-K2-CNR Committee, concerning the Karakoram – Himalaya mountain ranges in the north eastern part of Pakistan. The purpose of the study is to determine the horizontal shift of the Nanga Parbat Massif and to compare it with the results obtained from a permanent GNSS station located at the Ev-K2-CNR Pyramid laboratory near the Mount Everest Base Camp. The determination of plates and arcs movements through surface GNSS systems could be a solid contribution to the structural geologists to conirm or deny some theories on the tectonic movements of the Himalayan mountain ranges. The project started in April 2009 and to obtain reliable quantitative results it should go on for at least 10 years. To arrive at the irst measure, the project, in its starting phase, went into three different steps: (1) the choice of the measuring points; (2) the monumenting of the benchmarks; and (3) the irst measure in November 2009. At the present time a irst measure has been realized on solid monuments net; in the following years results will be available for future researches.