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Greece has declared a state of emergency for the popular tourist island of Santorini following a surge in seismic activity.

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

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

As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, which underpins modern-day Iraq and Saudi Arabia, was dragged behind ...

Sitting near the boundary of the massive African and Eurasian tectonic plates, Santorini is no stranger to tremors, although near-constant seismic events like this are rare. The island is famed ...

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