Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the hidden force tearing it apart.

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

A NEW ocean is forming beneath Ethiopia as a “heartbeat”-like pulse deep below the Earth’s surface splits the African ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is a 4,000-mile-long continent rift that stretches from Jordan in southwestern Asia into east Africa around Mozambique.

The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar - the long island just off the coast ...

The East African Rift System stretches more than 2,000 miles from the Red Sea in the north down to Mozambique in the south. It’s the largest active continental rift on Earth, where the tectonic ...

The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar - the long island just off the coast ...

The East African Rift System, a vast network of faults stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, is at the heart of this geological upheaval.

As a postdoctoral researcher, Stamps began observing the East African Rift System's unusual, rift-parallel deformation using data from GPS stations that measured signals from more than 30 ...

Big crack is evidence that East Africa could be splitting in two. A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya.

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 ...