The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were ...

The Himalayas, which stretch over 2400 km between the Namcha Barwa syntaxis in Tibet and the Nanga Parbat syntaxis in Kashmir, are the result of an ongoing orogeny — the collision of the continental ...

The highest mountain ranges are created by tectonic plates pushing together and forcing the ground up where they meet. This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. Image caption ...

The quake was initially recorded at 7 magnitude which struck at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) off the southwest tip of the South Island, the USGS said.

The region is seismically active, causing tectonic uplifts that can grow strong enough to change the heights of the Himalayas' peaks, noted Al Jazeera. The earth system is very complex ...

Tectonic movements happen when the tectonic plates of the Earth collide ... resulting in earthquakes in areas such as the Himalayas. Regional geological changes, frequently as a result of manmade ...