A magnitude 4.3 earthquake ... and Eurasian tectonic plates collide. This collision results in the Indian plate pushing beneath the Eurasian plate in a process called subduction, creating immense ...

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Soon after the earthquake struck Nepal this spring ... The researchers are studying a subduction zone, where two tectonic plates collide. Most of those zones are underwater, where an oceanic ...