Scientists Find Two Giant Cracks in the Earth Under Iran

Researchers have discovered two massive tears in a tectonic plate deep beneath southeastern Iran, and they appear to be growing.

Scientists have found something big going on deep underground in Iran. They discovered two giant tears in a tectonic plate. Tectonic plates are the massive pieces of rock that make up the Earth’s outer shell. They are always slowly moving around. Researchers found these cracks under the southeastern part of Iran. They used seismic data, which is like an ultrasound for the Earth, to see what is happening miles below the surface. What they saw is two separate tears in the plate. Even more interesting, the scientists think these two cracks might eventually join together to become one much lar…