A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate ...

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

Koshnaw adds: “This plate is pulling the region downward from below, making space for more sediment accumulation. Towards Turkey, the sediment-filled depression becomes much shallower, suggesting that ...

An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...

This area of Turkey is prone to earthquakes as it lies at the intersection of three of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust: the Anatolian, Arabian and African plates. Arabia is ...

causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean there may be more earthquakes along the ...

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