Thousands are fleeing the island of Santorin i by ferry as hundreds of earthquakes rattle the Aegean Sea. Often overwhelmed with crowds of holidaymakers, a number of tourists have seized the ...

Since Friday, hundreds of quakes have rattled the volcanic islands of Santorini and Amorgos in the Aegean Sea. Authorities ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian continents is fracturing horizontally. This structural shift is affecting ...

An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge underground tear, stretching from southeast Turkey to northwest Iran ...

The Armenia's initiative to start the process of membership in the European Union (EU) will not be discussed at the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting to be held, Russian Deputy Prime Minister ...

As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents – is breaking ...