SALT LAKE CITY Sept. 26, 2012 – Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four ...

THE massive earthquakes that hit Nepal on April 25th and May 12th—measuring magnitude 7.8 and 7.3 respectively—took place, as most large earthquakes do, on a boundary between two of the Earth’s ...

A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia, once again highlighting the country’s volatile position due to it sitting right in ...

Himalayas formed one of the most glamorous and youngest ranges in the world. They lie between the Indo-Gangetic Plains, in the south and the Tibetan Plateau, in the north to create a natural barrier ...

A gravity gradient model of the central Indian Ocean shows the junction of the African tectonic plate (left), the Indo-Australian plate (right) and the Antarctic plate (bottom). Credit: Scripps ...

THE Sumatra stretch of the Indo-Australia tectonic plate, which caused the magnitude 9 earthquake near Aceh last year, could be unusually susceptible to major earthquakes, according to research ...