article_snippet.sent: That's according to one researcher who travelled to the country to study how the Indian and Eurasian plates are moving together.
article_snippet.sent: Curtin University geologist Dr Zheng-Xiang Li travelled to Nepal to study the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates.
article_snippet.sent: Despite already being attached to Eurasia, the Indian plate is continuing to move North at a few centimetres per year - causing tectonic activity.
article_snippet.sent: These advances have allowed us to link present-day plate tectonics on Earth's surface to dynamic processes deep in the mantle - and to link these to ancient records of geology,Dr Li said.
article_snippet.sent: This map shows how Nepal is situated near the border of India and Asia, where two tectonic plates are moving into one another.
article_snippet.sent: The Indian plate is continuing to move North at a few centimetres per year - causing tectonic activity, which in turn can lead to tremors and devastating earthquakes .
article_snippet.sent: Researchers said the earthquake in Nepal highlighted how dangerous shifting tectonic plates can be.
article_snippet.sent: The Earth’s surface is formed from seven major and several minor tectonic plates that wander around at speeds varying from a few millimetres to two centimetres a year, the same pace that a human nail grows.
article_snippet.sent: It’s the friction caused by plates grinding against each other that causes earthquakes.
highlights_snippet.sent: Peter Spinks spotted that India, Eurasia and other plates are slowly moving together .