The fact the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa are coming together has been happening for hundreds of thousands of years. But how this is taking place — the way the upper part of the Earth’s crust is ...

Plate tectonics can be visualized like large moving parts on the earth’s crust. The constant movement of the plates causes major stresses, and, as a result, deformations or earthquakes occur on the ...

The Iberian Peninsula is slowly rotating clockwise, scientists revealed in a recent study that sheds light on how the Earth ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s rotating clockwise at a pace too small for humans to feel, yet large ...

The Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal, is rotating clockwise, a recent study based on an analysis of interactions between the Eurasian and African tectonic ...

Earthquake records and satellite readings suggest Eurasian and Africa plates are moving closer every year and causing dramatic changes around Iberian Peninsula.