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The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake

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47 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 1.344s | source
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RcouF1uZ4gsC ◴[02 Apr 25 11:25 UTC] No.43555578[source]▶
> The belt’s tectonic activity has birthed many of the world’s most impressive mountain ranges, including the Alps, the Atlas Mountains, and the Himalayas.

I though the Himalayas were formed from the Indian subcontinent slamming into the Eurasian land mass?

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1. adrian_b ◴[02 Apr 25 13:25 UTC] No.43556423[source]▶
Simultaneously with India, also Africa and Arabia have collided with Eurasia.

So the Himalayas have formed at the same time with a great number of mountain ranges, from the Atlas and the Pyrenees at the Western extremity, passing through many other mountains, e.g. the Alps, the Carpathians, the Caucasus, the Hindu Kush, the Pamir etc., until the Himalayas at the Eastern extremity.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_orogeny