Adhering to already existing building codes, not only in the Himalayas but in the surrounding Indo-Gangetic plains, can go a long way in limiting the inevitable damage.

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet today, January 7, 2025, caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian ...

BEIJING/KATHMANDU- A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing hundreds of houses ...

the local name for the Tibet Autonomous Region. "The region near the India and Eurasia plate boundary has a history of large earthquakes," the USGS said in a summary of the quake. "In the past ...

The epicenter was in Tibet’s Tingri county, where the India and Eurasia plates grind against each other and can cause earthquakes strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s ...

Authorities moved more than 47,000 people to shelters in earthquake-hit Tibet, Chinese officials said on Thursday, while ...

Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many ... active and is where the India and Eurasia plates clash and cause uplifts in the Himalayan mountains ...

The earthquake occurred in Dingri County, Shigatse City, Tibet, just after 9 a.m. local ... "The region near the India and Eurasia plate boundary has a history of large earthquakes," the USGS ...

At least 126 people were killed by a powerful earthquake that rocked a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning ... place on Earth where continental plates continue crashing today—and the ...

The slow-motion collision is still ongoing ... What's more, that process is creating a vertical split in the plate beneath Tibet, as the peeling section tears away from an adjacent region that's ...

A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities ... the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates clashed and caused uplifts in the ...