Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which are pushing up an ancient sea that is ...

A VERY severe earthquake occurred in north-west China on December 25. From records at nine widely distributed observatories, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey places the epicentre in lat.

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last ...

The jolt on Monday shook the Dingri County in Xigaze of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The earthquake shook the area around the holy town of Xigaze at 8:58 pm local time, according to the ...

Chinese scientists have deployed several prototype detectors to locate neutrinos in the South China Sea, the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on ...

China’s desire to obtain power within the energy sector is draining the environment and causing natural disasters such as earthquakes. Although these projects are aimed at increasing energy ...

Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower costs and yield innovative treatments, not to mention raise China’s prestige ...

Earthquakes in the Himalayas have a history of damaging dams. In the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, around a fifth of country’s hydropower projects was shuttered for more than a year. Despite such concerns ...

Shigatse, China - January 14, 2025 Thousands of aftershocks following the deadly Tibet earthquake early this month continue to cause havoc and instability in the most affected areas amid ongoing ...

BEIJING — A rural county in the Chinese region of Tibet, still feeling tremors from last week's magnitude 6.8 earthquake, was jolted on Monday (Jan 13) night by two powerful aftershocks barely ...