It sounds counter-intuitive, even a little unsettling, but according to geologists, Spain and Portugal are not sitting as ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

Published in Gondwana Research, a new geodynamic study combining earthquake records and satellite measurements suggests that ...

The Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal, is rotating clockwise, a recent study based on ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Spain and Portugal may appear completely stable, but geologists say the Iberian Peninsula is slowly rotating due to powerful ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck Nepal on Sunday morning, National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. In a post on X, NCS noted that the earthquake occurred at 8:13 AM at a depth of 5 kilometres.

Asier Madarieta, a researcher in the EHU’s HGI (Water Environmental Processes) group, has analysed how the earth’s crust is being compressed and deformed in the field where Eurasia and Africa meet in ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient "ghost" plume lurking beneath Oman. The magma plume is trapped beneath a thick portion of Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle, the planet's middle ...

The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today. Scientists are unlocking secrets about how plate tectonics forged our modern world ...

Tibet and Nepal lie on a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, and ...