The UAE's seismic network recorded a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Western Iran on Sunday evening, said the National Centre of ...

Researchers propose that this is caused by the additional load of the sinking oceanic plate that is still attached to the Arabian plate ... characterization of the earthquake risks.

Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...

and earthquake risks. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have uncovered a groundbreaking geological phenomenon—the Neotethys oceanic plate, which once lay beneath the Arabian and ...

Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

A scientific investigation dismantles the widespread claim that an Iranian earthquake was actually a secret nuclear test.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The idyllic Greek island of Santorini has been experiencing an unprecedented series of earthquakes, leaving both residents ...