Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

For decades, geologists have been closely monitoring developments in the East African Rift (EAR) system - a fissure, which stretches 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide along the deserts of ...

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...

Nestled in western Kenya's highlands, 2,200 meters above sea level, Eldoret — a six-hour drive from Nairobi that crosses both the equator and the East African Rift Valley — wears its moniker ...

Thus began the East African Rift ... like the ancient rift that split South America apart from Africa, eventually giving rise to the Atlantic Ocean. As the rift increases, the Red Sea and the Gulf of ...

The African ... a rift valley formed of depressions (or grabens) and local highs (or horst), delimited between fractures or faults. Scientists have connected the process to a gigantic plume of ...

The Afar region is home to the East African Rift Valley, a massive crack in the Earth’s surface that stretches through Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, a 35-mile-long fissure opened in the Ethiopian ...

The residents of Awash Fentale, a district some 200km east of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa ... who specialises in the seismology of the Ethiopian section of the Great Rift Valley. “Since early ...

The East African Rift, a colossal crack that stretches thousands of kilometers ... Scientists emphasize that this process is similar to what occurred during the formation of the Atlantic Ocean ...