• 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

  • Understanding the M6.9 Sikkim earthquake

    ByChillymanjaro

    A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit Sikkim, India at 12:40 UTC on September 18, 2011, at a depth of 20.7 km. The earthquake caused victims and huge damage in Sikkim (India), India and Nepal. It was also well felt in Bangladesh. The quake occurred near the boundary…

  • Eruption at Iceland’s Grímsvötn volcano

    ByEye

    Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, started erupting at around 17:30 UTC on May 21, 2011. The volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier in south-east Iceland, last erupted in 2004. In 2010, plumes of ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano…

  • Europe is about to move below Africa

    ByEye

    We may be seeing the start of a new subduction zone. The Eurasian plate is 85% land mass with a very undefined plate boundary on its southern border connecting to the African, Indian and Australian plates. The continents are converging; and for many millions of years,