• Major tectonic tear found beneath Iraq, Turkey, and Iran

    ByRishika Yadav

    An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally. This geological phenomenon is occurring deep beneath the Earth’s surface, with a tear extending from southeast Turkey to northwest Iran. The study focused on the impact of the Zagros Mountains’ forces in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, revealing significant bending of the Earth’s surface over the past 20 million years.

  • Understanding 7.2 Van earthquake

    ByChillymanjaro

    Night is falling and it makes difficulties to all that was hit by 7.2 Van earthquake.  Death toll is expected to rise because there is lots of people trappen in collapsed buildings and the cold makes harder to survivers.EMSC registered 7.3 magnitude at depth of