The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed; collisional boundaries ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... the deepest point on Earth. These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes that eventually build up ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

or slide under that plate. A collisional boundary occurs where two land masses on plates are pushed together. Trying to occupy the same space, the land masses buckle and fold, creating mountain ...

believed to have been created by a cosmic collision 4.5 billion years ago, may be responsible for modern plate tectonics. In ...

subduction zones may themselves be transformed to other types of plate boundary. For example, when India collided with Asia, an active subduction zone was transformed into a collision that formed ...

Plate tectonics have long been moving the ... mountain formations and volcanic activity. Although the collision is a long way off, Australia being steadily on the move is already having an impact ...

Papers with interesting supplementary info (which can be a pain to track down, so I've provided bundled links), movies, and selected recent papers. More publications on my CIRES page. Tectonic ...

At collision zones fold mountains will be formed. These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction.