Why is the Himalayan region so prone to earthquakes?
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Because the mountains are actively forming due to collision of the Indian continental plate into the Eurasian continental plate. Although slow by human standards, by geological reckoning these two massive bodies of rock are plowing into each other like colliding supertankers. To relieve the stess, slabs of rock move past one another along fault zones. This movement is what causes earthquakes. The Himalayas are growing at a rate of about 6 cm per year.
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GENEVA: Earthquakes hitting densely populated mountainous regions, such as the Himalaya, are bigger in magnitude because of a fast tectonic-plate collision, according to a study. ... This is because the faster they collide, the cooler the temperatures and the larger the areas that generate earthquakes