The Zone of Earthquake
Sucheta Mullick An earthquake is a phenomenon that involves shaking of earth's crust and release of energy due to the movement of tectonic plates in Asthenosphere. Asia is a hotbed of earthquake activity in which Tibet is marked as one of the major earthquake zone. There occurred almost 2046 earthquakes with a maximum magnitude of 7.4 in this region between February 2018 to February 2024. In India, major earthquake zones are observed in the northern part along the Himalayan mountain range mainly Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Sikkim, Northern part of UP, Arunachal Pradesh. The origin of this region is about 40 to 50 million years ago, when the Indian and Eurasian plates started to collide which caused the edges of the plates to fold, forming Himalayas and Tibetan plateau. Now the question arise that , why only this particular region within the whole plate boundary only facing frequent earthquakes? To determine the true cause of this, the Geologists of Stanfor...