They call this tectonic plate boundary zone the East African Rift Valley (EAR), part of the wider East African Rift System. The valley is so pronounced it’s visible from space. Once the split ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of ...

The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart, paving the way for a new ocean and reshaping Earth's geography in real-time. A study by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology reveals ...

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 ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two separate landmasses. While this ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split—and ultimately create a new ocean—along the great East African Rift Valley.

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...