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 ...

"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 Himalayan region has always been vulnerable ... The Eurasian-Indian plate boundary cuts across the northernmost parts of India, making the surrounding regions prone to earthquakes.