An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the ... by the Earth's tectonic plates like ...

Join Isla and Connor as they explore features of tectonic movement along the Great ... Everest, in the Himalayas in Asia.

The region is seismically active, causing tectonic uplifts that can grow strong enough to change the heights of the Himalayas' peaks, noted Al Jazeera. The earth system is very complex ...

When we think about plate tectonics, we normally picture erupting volcanos, gigantic mountain ranges like the Himalayas ... look at this geological map of southern Britain. Great swathes of ...