India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics ... Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau, the European Alps and the Zagros Mountains ...

For example, the Himalayas formed when India came into contact with Asia. It took more than 50 years for Wegener’s theory to be accepted. One of the reasons was that it was difficult to work out ...

Deadly earthquakes in the Himalayan region, with historical data and potential impacts on surrounding areas explained in ...

A series of earthquakes struck southern Tibet on January 7, near the Nepal border. What exactly is an earthquake? Which countries are the most earthquake-prone? Why is the Himalayan region seismically ...