Scientists have known that the collision of the two tectonic plates, which began roughly 60 million years ago, caused the edge of the Eurasian plate to buckle, bulging and twisting into what we ...

In the heart of Asia, deep underground, two huge tectonic plates are crashing into each other — a violent but slow-motion bout of geological bumper cars that over time has sculpted the soaring ...

But these exercises in tectonic time travel bring up something strange: Around 67 million years ago, the Indian microcontinent — which ultimately headed north and collided with Eurasia to make the ...

The earthquake that struck Nepal over the weekend was hardly a surprise. Geologists have known for decades that tectonic plates underneath Nepal were capable of creating a devastating earthquake.

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a handful of smaller ones.

Kelsey Vlamis,Morgan McFall-Johnsen January 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM·3 min read 27 Tectonic plates that are causing the Himalayas to grow may also be splitting Tibet in two, study suggests ...

GENEVA: Earthquakes hitting densely populated mountainous regions, such as the Himalaya, are bigger in magnitude because of a fast tectonic-plate collision, acc ...

The Himalayas, Earth's mightiest mountains, have long been the stage for a slow-motion geological collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. This epic battle has been ongoing for ...

Four great earthquakes have struck the Himalayas during the last 200 years, and it was getting ready for another, as a paper that I co-authored in February had forewarned. The Nepal quake is also ...

A sweep of the western Himalayas in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan is at risk from earthquakes as strong as magnitude 8, geologists warn, as pressure mounts between the India and Eurasia ...

Why Himalayas Are Hit By Bigger Earthquakes Found In 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Gorkha-Nepal, and a year later, Norcia, Italy suffered a magnitude 6.2 earthquake.

As the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates slowly collide, the Himalayan mountains continue to rise. However a new study suggests the Indian plate may be peeling apart, causing a slab tear. Scientists ...