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.

Geologists have uncovered a long-lost continental fragment buried beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a discovery that offers ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

The bunching of the land by plate tectonics was followed by intense erosion, which wiped away any sediment covering the colorful layers. Luckily for modern visitors, there is no vegetation to ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

cautioned against the risk of tectonic activity due to being surrounded by three tectonic plates, and urged that Bangladeshi officials should start building earthquake awareness among the public and ...

Geographically we are at risk due to being surrounded by three lands with tectonic activities with ... Even in north we have the Eurasian plate in Nepal, and we are standing in Indo-Australian ...

The earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing Fault, is attributed to the movement of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in ...

cautioned against the risk of tectonic activity due to being surrounded by three tectonic plates, and urged that Bangladeshi officials should start building earthquake awareness among the public ...

The toll from Myanmar's earthquake continues to rise, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to mount ...

The world's highest mountain range - the Himalayas - is a testament to the power of plate tectonics. Forced upwards by the gradual northward push of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate.

On the Global Seismic Risk Map, Myanmar lies in the red zone with a moderate to ... An earthquake happens when Earth’s tectonic plates move against each other, creating friction. This sudden movement ...