A comprehensive study suggests the Arabian plate is geologically stable and capable of withstanding long-term forces from surrounding tectonic activity. To better understand the earthquake hazards ...

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

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

If you just count the major and minor plates as tectonic plates, that would bring the total up to 15. But before we get too comfy with that total, there’s a new kid in town – the microplate .

A deep, rhythmic pulse has been found surging like a heartbeat deep under Africa. At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, ...

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

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

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 ...

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.