China has many mountains, with mountainous areas, which consist of mountains, hills and plateaus, making up two thirds of its total land area. Of various landforms, mountains account for about 33 ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global ... environmental experts from China, the UK, the US, Australia, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region ...

recorded 12 major quakes clustered along the Pamir-Baikal seismic belt in East Asia. A series of quakes that hit northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau between 1920 and 1934 and another set on its ...