A comprehensive study suggests the Arabian plate is geologically stable and capable of withstanding long-term forces from surrounding tectonic activity. To better understand the earthquake hazards ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

If you just count the major and minor plates as tectonic plates, that would bring the total up to 15. But before we get too comfy with that total, there’s a new kid in town – the microplate .

Scientists report that the Arabian tectonic plate and the African plate are moving away from each other, stretching the Earth's crust and widening the southern end of the Red Sea.

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate ... Cocos, Nazca, Arabian and the Juan de Fuca," Goes told Live Science. Some geologists count the ...

The plates – identified as the Somalian tectonic plate, the Nubian tectonic plate and the Arabian tectonic plate – drift farther apart by a few millimeters per year, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

Straddling the seam between the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates, Iran’s history is plagued with earthquakes. Most notably in recent years is a magnitude 6.7 event in 2003 that flattened the ...