An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter Scale struck Tibet on Monday as reported by the National Center for Seismology ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The region is prone to seismic activity due to tectonic plate collisions, with earthquakes regularly impacting the area.

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan.

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Three earthquakes jolted Tibet on Thursday according to National Center for Seismology. The latest one in the series was an ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Subduction zones are where tectonic plates are pushed under one another after collision while fault lines are fractures in the Earth’s crust resulting from movement by the former. He said ...

According to the National Center for Seismology, On March 13, three earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 3.5 to 4.3 ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this collision is so great that mountains are created. Earthquakes are very common ...