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The Himalaya are the dramatic result of one such tectonic pileup some 50 million years ago, when the Indian continental plate rammed into the Eurasian plate.

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He also names Persia, unequivocally understood as modern-day Iran, which even in Ezekiel’s time was a formidable eastern empire. Persia’s inclusion in the Gogian alliance is striking in its clarity.

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Pakistan is one of the most seismically active regions in the world due to its location at the convergence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

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Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line also running directly through Herat.

The epicentre was in the Hindu Kush region at a depth of 230 kilometres. Pakistan is prone to seismic activity as it lies on the boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line also running directly through Herat. Its location on several active fault lines along ...

There, the tectonic plates moved at around 21 millimetres per year before two major earthquakes struck — one of magnitude 8.0 in 1934 and another of 7.8 in 2015.