What caused the Sichuan earthquake in China in 2008?
What caused the Sichuan earthquake in China in 2008? The quake was caused by the collision of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian plates along the 155-mile- (249-km-) long Longmenshan Fault, a thrust fault in which the stresses produced by the northward-moving Indian-Australian plate shifted a portion of the Plateau of Tibet eastward. When was the last