The northward compression from the Indian Ocean plate is the result of the Indian plate's collision with the Eurasian plate.
Some 68 major dams in the Himalayan region exploit the enormous hydropower potential of high-altitude lakes and rivers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In the last 75 years, more than 20 earthquakes above 6.0 magnitude have hit the Lhasa block, where lay the epicentre of this ...
Relief teams in western China shifted their focus to resettling survivors after a search Wednesday for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck a day earlier near a holy city for ...
China has approved a $137,000,000,000 project to build the most powerful hydro dam - but the move has left people concerned.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday but said Trump ...