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 the Western Mediterranean. His work contributes towards understanding this complex contact field bet ter as well as opening the door to identifying the faults and structures that could lead to earthquakes or deformations on the peninsula. ...read more read less