Continental-Continental Plate Boundary
Continental Plates are too buoyant to subduct , therefore when two continental plates collide with each other,they have nowhere else to go but up. The Himalayan mountain range and The Tibetan Plateau have formed as a result of the collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Because the crust of both continents are too thick and too compressed together due to collision, it gives no opportunity for anything to squeeze up and break through the surface as volcanic eruptions. But the Himalayas are still rising by more than 1cm each year because India continues to move into Asia which explains the occurrence of earthquakes in that region today.
Due to the thickness of both continental plates depths of earthquakes are typically very shallow. Amongst one of the deepest earthquake in that region was the earthquake In Nepal on April 20, 1988. The magnitude reached a 5.4 on the Richter Scale with a depth of 54.80 kilometers ( 34.05 mi).
2015 Nepal Earthquake
Although not amongst the deepest earthquakes in this area, the earthquake that occurred in the Nepal has been the most destructive disaster to happen in Nepal since the Nepal-Bihar earthquake in 1934. The earthquake occurred on April 25, 2015 with a magnitude of a 7.8 and a depth of 15 kilometers ( 9.3 mi ). The earthquake set an avalanche around Mt. Everest that killed 17 climbers and left many injured. The devastation also killed over 1900 people in its capital of Kathmandu ( shown above ). The Continental collision between both of these tectonic plates generates many earthquakes and makes it one of the most Hazardous seismic regions on earth. ( below is an image of the epicenter of the 2015 Nepal earthquake on google earth )
Below is a mountain profile of the himalayas. The Himalayas forms a barrier between the Plateau of Tibet to the north and the alluvial plains of the Indian subcontinent to the south; all formed due to the collision of both continental plates. The Himalayas includes some of the highest mountains in the world, including MT. Everest with an elevation of 29,035 ft ( 8,850 meters ) making it the highest in the world!