The tremors of the earthquake were also felt in India and people could be seen rushing out of their homes and cities in Patna, Gurgaon and Delhi. The earthquake has just come after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, 2015.he second earthquake, which came after a gap of approximately 30 minutes, had its epicentre 33 km (21mi) from Ramechhap and 83km (52mi) east of the capital city of Kathmandu. Tremors of the earthquake could be felt as far away as North India in cities like Srinagar, Amritsar, Lucknow and Jaipur.
The earth's atmospheric helium is replaced by the decay of radioactive elements in the earth's crust. Alpha decay, one type of radioactive decay, produces particles called alpha particles. An alpha particle can become a helium atom once it captures two electrons from its surroundings.
If one of the colliding plates is topped with oceanic crust, it is forced down into the mantle where it begins to melt. Magma rises into and through the other plate, solidifying into new crust. Magma formed from melting plates solidifies into granite, a light colored, low-density rock that makes up the continents. Thus at convergent boundaries, continental crust, made of granite, is created, and oceanic crust is destroyed. Two plates sliding past each other forms a transform plate boundary. Natural or human-made structures that cross a transform boundary are offsetâsplit into pieces and carried in opposite directions.