This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...

One of the world's deepest and most dangerous caves lies in Abkhazia, a disputed part of Georgia. It takes days to get to the ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...

Pakistan falls on three major tectonic plates — the Arabian, Euro-Asian and Indian — which lift, subduct and provide energy and movement to each other, explains Muhammad Rehan, a geological ...

Then, as time went on, tectonic plates formed and separated Pangea into ... Large, lethal earthquakes are also produced by faults created by the collision of the Arabian and Eurasian plates. What we ...

The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to speculation ...

The Hashemite rulers of Jordan, themselves invaders from the Arabian Peninsula ... trapped between these two inexorably colliding tectonic plates. What do we learn from all of this?

Israel’s proficiency in surveillance technology can help friendlier Arab regimes stay in power ... Trump’s shifting of the geopolitical tectonic plates may seem chaotic, but it’s not ...

A lowland area, or ‘rift valley’, appears where tectonic plates move away from each other, according to National Geographic. For millions of years, the Arabian plate has slowly, but surely ...