At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/volcanic-eruption-creates-island-inn-4-days/ …. a volcanic eruption in the Red Sea created a new island in just four days of outflow of lava. Fountains of lava shooting up to 90 feet high. It occurred in the Zubair archipelago near Yemen. It is thought it was created by two plates moving apart – Arabia moving away from Africa. However, this is all part of the Red Sea Rift Valley system and tectonic events are fairly common. It is in fact a large rent in the Earth’s crust which includes the Dead Sea and Jordan Valley as well as the Red Sea, as far as East Africa. Is it akin to rents at the bottom of the oceans – which do not necessarily occur at plate boundaries.
At https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250415144009.htm … the Myanmar earthquake, centred on Mandalay, caused extensive damage, not only in Myanmar but in Thailand and southern China. Again, a collision of tectonic plates is blamed, a diagnosis that amounts to the stock explanation when something like this happens. However, there is already a fault line, known as the Sagaing Fault, running through central Myanmar. The earthquake was a near surface rupture, a strike slip that began slowly but quickly gained rapidity.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-04-largest-earth-history-gibraltar-sicily.html … with more discoveries on the sea bed between Sicily and North Africa, concerning the flooding event in the Mediterranean several million years ago.