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

Hurricanes and low pressure systems do spin counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere. Tornadoes usually do, though not always. The behavior of the intense thundershowers that produce tornadoes ...

Earthquake records and satellite readings suggest Eurasian and Africa plates are moving closer every year and causing ...

New data shows how the approach of the African and Eurasian plates is forcing displacement that will eventually close the ...

Tornadoes do occur in the Southern Hemisphere, albeit at a greatly reduced frequency than in the Northern Hemisphere, primarily because it includes the U.S., which hosts about 75 percent of the ...

Learn about new earthquake and satellite data that has revealed the Iberian Peninsula is slowly on the move.

In the northern hemisphere, the vast majority of tornadoes (more than 95 percent) rotate counter-clockwise–the same spin as a low pressure system. At low levels, air spirals into a tornado in a large ...

If a client emailed you a PDF with a combination of pages in portrait and landscape mode, some pages may display at a 90-degree angle. Adobe Reader lets you rotate the view so you can easily read this ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how right-handed molecules in our cells can give rise to cells that are not symmetrical ...