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

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 accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around Santorini since 24 January. The seismic activity is concentrated in the area between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, with ...

That has a few major implications ... been transported there by a process called 'subduction', where one tectonic plate dives ...

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The Earth sure knows how to keep things moving. At their edges, tectonic plates interact ... connected to the African and Arabian plates to the south. It’s no surprise, then, that Istanbul frequently ...

Gauteng motorists could get new number plates as early as April 2025, with the Gauteng Provincial Government planning to wrap up the pilot process by the end of the 2024/25 financial year or by 31 ...

According to this theory, the lithosphere (the Earth's rigid outer layer) is divided into several tectonic plates that float and move slowly on the viscous mantle. These movements are responsible for ...