A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (red triangles), as well the two parts of the African Plate (the Nubian and the Somalian) splitting along the East African Rift ...

The East African Rift, one of the planet's most active fault systems. Top, ... Geological Shift in East Africa Could Reshape World Map. Africa. DC Web Desk. 16 May 2025 4:48 PM IST.

A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for ...

In East Africa, geothermal energy is big business, and that’s all thanks to the East African Rift System (EARS). One of the largest rift systems on Earth—stretching 4,000 miles from Ethiopia ...

The cracks are "associated with the East African Rift System (EARS)," which stretches "downward for thousands of kilometers through several countries in Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya, the ...

A quiet and slow-moving change is unfolding beneath the surface of East Africa– one that could, over millions of years, reshape not only the continent but the global map as we know it.

Known as the East African Rift system, the crack extends over 3,500 kilometres (2,174 miles) from the Red Sea north to Mozambique in the southeast. Trending.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

The East African Rift is one of the most active fault systems on the planet. It stretches through countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, and it marks the boundary where the African plate is ...