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Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent plate boundaries ... plate movement of around 5 centimeters per year ...

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