On February 9, 2025, at 10.08pm, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 occurred in Afghanistan at a latitude of 36.51 N and a ...

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

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?

A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, ...

Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...

The epicentre of almost all the quakes was located near Bhatwari and Badkot areas of the Uttarkashi district. The first three ...

An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday, a statement by the National Center of Seismology ...

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

Earthquakes in the Himalayas evoke a special kind of dread in the country. Memories of two deadly quakes in Nepal in April and May of 2015 that killed at least 9,000 and caused incalculable damage ...

The Himalayan region has always been vulnerable to earthquakes because of the movement of the Indian plate against the Eurasian plate. The area was particularly hit in 2005 and 2015. In the 2015 ...

A massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 shuttered almost a fifth of its hydropower for more than a year, research published in 2018 showed. Building more dams in the Himalayas is not sustainable ...