The Himalayas, formed by the Indian-Eurasian tectonic collision, face potential splitting as a study reveals the Indian plate peeling apart, causing slab tear and possible division. Continue reading to learn more.
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possibility the earth can move and when it moves, after experiencing the earthquake, it does nothing but terrify the people who are back there. now you mentioned christchurch, new zealand quake, from a new weeks back, does that have any connection with the fault line off the coast of japan? are they unconnected? well, they are along the pacific ring of fire as it is called. so, around the edges of the pacific plate where typically we have either subduction zones, and, faults where the plates move past one another and around the whole connected ring of fire, there is a localized zone of a lot of volcanic and earthquake activities. and, so there is that connection. but, apart from that, we have had so many earthquakes around the ring of fire, over time, last year, the chilean earthquake, so people have been thinking about those connections, but i would say the main connection i see is they are located along the plate