Faults and Earthquakes - Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design - page 193

Figure 6.12 Crustal collision earthquakes (Gioncu, 2006)
Considering these aspects, it is clear that the collision earthquakes, produced along
the suture fault, occur always in the inland of continents.
There are some main collision zones: the Himalayas, Alps and Adria zones, Ural
Mountains and Eastern China.
The result of one the most known collision is the greatest mountain range of the
modern world, the Himalayan Mountains, as a result of the collision of the Indian
plate with the Eurasian plate (Fig. 6.13 see also Figure 5.8). One can see that the
seismicity of the Tibetan Plateau is very high and is large extended in the Asian
continent.
Tibetan
Plateau
Indian
Plate
Figure 6.12 Seismicity of Tibetan Plateau (USGS, nd)