While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Tibet was hit by a second earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for ...

An earthquake of 4.0 magnitude on Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday, a statement by the National Center of Seismology said. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 16km, making it ...

DEHRADUN: Uttarkashi district, known for its high seismic sensitivity, has experienced nine earthquakes over the past 20 days ...

An earthquake of 41 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday a statement by the National Center of Seismology ...

DEHRADUN: Residents of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand have been experiencing continuous earthquake tremors over the past ten days, prompting seismologists to issue a ...

That's because scientists are unable to easily identify active faults. There is a difference between faults and fault lines. The USGS explains a fault is a three-dimensional surface within the ...

With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the winter climbing season in the Himalayas officially ends. The pristine mountain range will enjoy a respite from human ...

Tibet and Nepal lie on a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence. The region ...