A shift in our understanding of the India-Asia collision
The study out of China suggests millions of years ago India was about twice as big as it is now, but it subsided under and pushed up, the Tibetan plateau.
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
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The study out of China suggests millions of years ago India was about twice as big as it is now, but it subsided under and pushed up, the Tibetan plateau.
Many scientists believe that a huge earthquake is due soon in Himalayas. They expect at least one of 8.1 to 8.3 M—though seven such quakes are overdue. A giant earthquake of this magnitude could snuff out 10 million lives in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.