India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction ...

For example, the Himalayas formed when India came into contact with Asia. It took more than 50 years for Wegener’s theory to be accepted. One of the reasons was that it was difficult to work out ...

The Himalayan region has always been vulnerable ... The Eurasian-Indian plate boundary cuts across the northernmost parts of India, making the surrounding regions prone to earthquakes.