Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

The Afar junction is the point at which the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates meet, each departing in their own directions to leave a widening gap under the Afar Triangle. Eventually, the crust ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

The crack is found on the African, Arabian and Somali tectonic plate boundaries. For the past 30 million years, the Arabian plate has been slowly moving away from the African continent.

The formation of this island provides a rare glimpse into the dynamic forces that shape our planet, particularly in the volatile regions where tectonic plates meet. A Volcanic Eruption That ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Pakistan's Balochistan province, injuring at least five people and damaging homes. The ...

Pakistan has five seismic zones as it is located on three major tectonic plates - the Arabian, Euro-Asian and Indian, ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit / NASA Johnson Space Center.

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.