The East African Rift may be drifting apart quicker than expected, one geologist warned. The rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across ...

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in th ...

Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018 ... The splitting of Africa isn’t an isolated event; continents have drifted apart and re-merged at least three times throughout Earth’s history.

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) was initially identified in 2005, with its origins dating back around 22 million years, according to earth.com. The East African Rift results from the movement ...