Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Tibet was hit by a second earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for ...

DEHRADUN: Uttarkashi district, known for its high seismic sensitivity, has experienced nine earthquakes over the past 20 days ...

These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact in reshaping the Earth's surface.

Analysis of historical earthquake records and interseismic deformation across the East Anatolian Fault Zone suggests that coseismic slip in the 2023 earthquakes strongly corresponded to the slip ...

An earthquake of 41 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday a statement by the National Center of Seismology ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet at a depth of 10 km on February 2, 2025, according to the National Center of ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be. These massive slabs, part of the lithosphere, meet at their edges where all the ...

The Tibetan Plateau is prone to earthquakes because of colliding tectonic plates. Tibet and Nepal lie ... forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence. The region is seismically ...

behind the Himalayas. Although this immense chain, stretching for about 600 miles, is one of the mighty mountain ranges of the earth, and forms the northern watershed of the great Brahmaputra ...