The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, China, site of a massive dam project. Kobe Jiang via Flickr

As China erects the largest hydropower installation on Earth atop an active fault line in the Himalayas, Chinese scientists are calling on engineers to guard against risks from earthquakes.

The project broke ground last year in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, the longest and deepest canyon in the world. When completed, the $167 billion installation will consist of a series of five dams and have a generating capacity of 70 gigawatts , roughly the total power capacity of Poland.

But scientists warn that Tibet is prone to earthquakes, putting the project at risk, the South China Morning Post reports .…