Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, which is called subduction. All of these movements can cause earthquakes. Earthquakes can build mountains or ...

Amit Sharma “To understand the Himalayas is to understand the pulse of the Earth itself” a famous quote by the Indian ...

Earthquakes are very common at this type of ... South America has a great example of a convergent plate boundary. As the Nazca Plate collides with the South American Plate, it's forced underneath ...

Those outside during an earthquake should move to an open area away from buildings ... which is unlikely to cause a tsunami, a convergent quake is possible and more likely to cause a surge. Many ...

Earthquake in Kolkata Today Highlights: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale struck the Bay of Bengal in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the National Center for Seismology ...

Kolkata earthquake: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Bay of Bengal on Tuesday at 6:10 a.m., causing tremors in Kolkata and surrounding areas, according to NCS. Kolkata earthquake updates ...

So just how big was last Friday’s earthquake? Depending on what source you read — and when you read it — the magnitude of the Sunshine Coast earthquake that rattled southwest B.C. shortly ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale struck the Bay of Bengal in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). According to NCS, the earthquake ...

As Japan marks the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas of the country’s northeast in 2011, experts have warned that the seismic conditions in an underwater ...