Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Tibet was hit by a second earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for ...

An earthquake of 4.0 magnitude on Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday, a statement by the National Center of Seismology said ...

DEHRADUN: Uttarkashi district, known for its high seismic sensitivity, has experienced nine earthquakes over the past 20 days ...

These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact in reshaping the Earth's surface.

An earthquake of 41 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday a statement by the National Center of Seismology ...

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet, with a depth of 5 km. This follows several recent earthquakes in the region, ...

These mountains are surrounded by a “graveyard” of tectonic plates that were transported there by a process called “subduction,” where one tectonic plate sinks below another and descends nearly ...

behind the Himalayas. Although this immense chain, stretching for about 600 miles, is one of the mighty mountain ranges of the earth, and forms the northern watershed of the great Brahmaputra ...

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These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear to be hotter and older than other structures nearby that are known to be sunken tectonic plates, possibly being around 500 million years old ...