Europe will sink under Africa

In the coming years, humans will witness the African continent's phenomenon on the European continent during the transition.

The two continents of Europe and Africa are moving toward each other. Over the past few million years, the northern edge of the African strata has sunk below Europe.

But this process has stopped. In a conference of the European Geographic Union (EGU) last week, scientists confirmed that this time Europe was sinking below Africa, the BBC reported.

Underneath the Mediterranean Sea, the thick and cold stone floor at the northern edge of the African strata has nearly sunk below the Eurasian strata. But the African mainland is too light to sink.

' Africa will not sink, but it and continental Europe continue to move toward each other. So which continent will rise above? Most likely, within a reasonable time, we will see Europe sinking below Africa , "said Rinus Wortel, a Utrecht University scientist in the Netherlands.

The phenomenon of two stratigraphic blocks sliding into each other can cause earthquakes like the seismic in Japan on March 11

Europe (above) and Africa (below) are moving toward each other.Photo: globe-images.net.

The earthquakes in the Mediterranean Sea are less likely to cause tsunamis than the earthquake in the Pacific fire belt. However, earthquakes with magnitudes of 8 or more Richter levels were recorded. For example, in 1303 an earthquake in the Greek island of Crete triggered a tsunami that devastated the cities of Heraklion (Greece) and Alexandria (Egypt).

Scientists are concerned that Europe will come under Africa, because European countries invest too little in building a tsunami warning system in the former continent. Stefano Tinti, a researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy, announced the total amount of money that the European Union invested in tsunami research in the last five years was only about 5 million euros. In the same period, Germany alone financed Indonesia about 55 million euros to build an early tsunami warning system.

" Countries are only interested in the tsunami warning system after the Asian tsunami in 2004, then the level of interest has decreased ," Professor Tinti said.