Hey guys! I hope you all had an awesome time at Mount Rainier and just hanging around in Seattle. Tomorrow, we're going to head on an airplane to Tibet and visit yet another mountain, Mount Everest! To get things straight first, the location of this beast is 27°59'18.08"N 86°55'30.72"E. Unlike Mount Rainier though, Mount Everest and the Himalayas as a whole were created by two continental plates colliding with each other, more specifically, the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Scientists have measured that the Indian Plate is pushing into the Eurasian Plate at around 2 cm per year. When two continental plates collide, they create either mountain chains, earthquake activity, or both. Another thing that separates collision boundaries apart from subduction boundaries is that they do not create volcanoes. As stated before, collision boundaries often have earthquake activity, and this is true for the Himalayan region. In the past century, there have been 4 major earthquakes that have struck this region, including one that registered an 8.7 on the Richter scale in 1934. Since then, there have been a few more fairly severe ones, but not as bad. That's all I have to say for now, see ya!
-KY
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