The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.
Sri Lanka lies in the large Indo-Australian plate seemingly far away from any of the plate boundaries. Many people therefore believe that this fortuitous scenario makes Sri Lanka safe from earthquakes ...
"The earthquake that occurred is a medium type caused by the activity of rock deformation within the Indo-Australian Plate (intermediate-intra-slab)," said the Director of Earthquakes and Tsunamis at ...
Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...