A mild earthquake measuring 4.4 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Western Nepal’s Dailekh district on Tuesday, officials ...
More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts ...
The Himalayan mountain range was formed after the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided around 50 million years ago. How does their movement continue to impact the region?
Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.
where the India and Eurasia plates grind against each other and can cause earthquakes strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s tallest peaks in the Himalayan mountains.
An earthquake of 4.2 magnitude on Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday, National Center of Seismology reported.As per NCS, ...
The epicentre of almost all the quakes was located near Bhatwari and Badkot areas of the Uttarkashi district. The first three ...
A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, ...
A river changed its course, a lake was formed and a mountain cracked in the wake of the January 19 earthquake that hit the Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh.
"Focal mechanism solutions of this earthquake indicate this event was associated with a normal fault oriented roughly perpendicular to the plate boundary north of the Himalayan Mountains within ...
The region has been plagued by earthquakes and aftershocks recently, as another earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck the region on January 24. The Tibetan Plateau is prone to earthquakes because of ...
A strong earthquake hit El Salvador on Thursday, causing residents to take to the streets, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The AP said there were no initial reports of damage from the earthquake.