SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington ... is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary. Friction keeps the plates from moving ...

When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, which is called subduction. All of these movements can cause earthquakes. Earthquakes can build mountains or ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Nepal in the early hours of Friday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS) ...

But Wdowinski said earthquakes due to rainfall only really occur in convergent tectonic environments—where two tectonic plates move toward one another and cause uplift of the crust, as is the ...

Earthquake Today: Pakistan was rattled once again on Tuesday evening by a 4.2-magnitude earthquake centred near Jhang Tehsil ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic ... three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another ...

The tremor, though moderate in intensity, is part of a continuing series of seismic events that have rattled various parts of ...

Nepal is the 11th most earthquake-prone country in the world. Nepal is situated along the Himalayas, where there is a lot of seismic activity. It is located on a convergent boundary, where the ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington ... is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary. Friction keeps the plates from moving ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington ... is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary. Friction keeps the plates from moving ...